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   Carlos E. R. to William Unruh   
   Re: bash script   
   22 Feb 17 14:13:01   
   
   From: robin_listas@invalid.es   
      
   On 2017-02-22 00:07, William Unruh wrote:   
   > On 2017-02-21, Carlos E. R.  wrote:   
   >> On 2017-02-21 08:52, William Unruh wrote:   
   >>> On 2017-02-21, Sidney_Kotic  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> On that new file,  Place " at the beginning and   
   >>> end of the name. run awk over the sorted file and put in the new directory.   
   >>> so each line looks like   
   >>> "/old/location/and/name"   "/new/place/with/name"   
   >>   
   >> I prefer two or more files, one exact line per entry, so that I can read   
   >> an entire line and assign to a single variable. No parsing.   
   >>   
   >> Or arrays in memory. You can have one for the old and another for the   
   >> new, with the index number marking the relationship.   
   >>   
   >   
   > And I like readable stuff so a human can read it and make alterations by   
   > hand, esp for "one-off" jobs and when you are just learning. Being elegant   
   > takes a back step to getting the job done.   
      
   Two entries per line make machine parsing harder.   
      
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          Carlos E.R.   
      
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