"I must say, I was a bit surprised that they apparently couldn't do it -- at least not very easily. (And no, "they" here means the Unix utilities, not our Unix gurus. Had the former been able to do it, then the latter also would have been.)""Actually", you illiterate fucking baboon, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID.
Actually, I'm sure I (and any of the other Unix people) could figure it out using your limited tool choices. After seeing Scott do OO programming in a variety of languages, I'm sure he could torture sed to do the task.
Re-read the *whole* paragraph, including the parenthesis, s-l-o-w-l-y.
BUT WE AREN'T THAT STUPID.Well, no... *MOST* of you aren't -- but *you*, on the other hand -- you obviously are.
Get back to me when you've mastered Remedial English For Eighth-Graders, but not before.