Darren New wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Sure. UNIX definitely comes with a lot of text manipulation tools that 
>> Windows doesn't. On the other hand, lots of Windows files aren't text, 
>> and Windows has better tools than UNIX for manipulating structured files.
> 
> Just as an example, there's no UNIX text-processing tool that will look 
> in an ODF word processing file to find some text but only in the 
> comments submitted by a particular author of the ODF file, or only in 
> boldface, or only the author's names; nor is there a text processing 
> tool in UNIX to find every number in the third column of a particular 
> spreadsheet whose value is more than 50, or the word "POV-Ray" but only 
> in emails from Darren sent during February.
> 
> Windows gives you ways of scripting 
> this information in standard scripting languages. You can write a script 
> that picks mail messages out of your email client by date and sender, 
> runs them through VIM to reverse each line of text, and then populate an 
> Excel spreadsheet with any line of text that has more than five 
> characters, all in the scripting languages that come with Windows.

...so how do you actually do this then?

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