batch processing of large numbers of text files?

[FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com]

Hi Ben:

I've been using Python to manipulate XML files, and it's free and 
friendly. Well, I sit with a lot of professional programmers, so I have 
help, but they assure me that it's a wonderful scripting language compared 
to many others. Did I mention that it's free?

Here's the download site: http://www.python.org/
And here's the reference book: http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html

Good luck!

Fei Min Lorente




"B Hechter" <bhechter at objectives.ca> 
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batch processing of large numbers of text files?






Hi Framers,

Well, it looks like I will need to batch process a large number of ASCII
(plain text) system configuration files in the same manner, in order to
filter out information that I do not need, before I import them into 
Frame.

I don't know if this a proper topic for the list, but it takes me back to 
my
UNIX days of using "sed" with great success (even for a non-programmer 
like
me), to create a standard set of batch text processing instructions that
could be applied consistently and repetitively to large numbers of
pattern-based plain text files.

The question is two fold:
a) any sed FM users out there?
b) are there other similar (economical) options for batch processing of 
text
files?

Comments and opinions are most welcome.

Thanks!

Ben
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