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"Then again, sed works differently on different platforms"

Well that kills my idea why to use awk/sed. What would you use @freehunter?

Perl, Python, Ruby

True, defeats the idea of a one liner in bash/awk/sed.

Well the beauty of one-liners is that they're quick and dirty. They don't need to be portable, you don't usually maintain a one-liner for years. If you need something portable, you should use a real cross-platform language like Perl, Python, etc. Something that's independent of the OS you're running.

"Well the beauty of one-liners is that they're quick and dirty. They don't need to be portable, you don't usually maintain a one-liner for years."

Given that description, I'd agree. Now I understand the crux of the problem, problem solved using disposable code in terse language or script.

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