On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote: > ... all manner of external tools, sed, awk, > perl, cut, ad nauseum. Just use bash. Well, this is on MS-Windows. bash is as external as sed, awk, etc., are. :) That said, more techniques are always good to offer. :) -- Ben