On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:42, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: ust run a sed command such as "s/^def/set/" and you have what you need as well. But using awk has higher geek creds. Then again, I don't think any one solved the Tower of Hanoi in Awk, but it was done in a sed script. ;-) There would be no challenge to doing it in awk. It would be no more complicated than writing it in C or Java. :) -brian