Re: Question Re: Piping and Redirection

As an experiment, I tried grep against a physical file. Each record is
treated like a "record" in a stream file, that is delimited by CR-LF or
whatever. This was a file with text only, but it could be used to find
something that crosses field boundaries, just as FNDSTRPDM can be run
against non-source physicals.

When you look at CPYFRMIMPF, one choice for record delimiter is *EOR, which
probably applies to physical files, not stream files. But the equivalent
function is there.

Regards

Vern

At 08:57 AM 11/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:

-snip-

cat, sed, awk, grep, more... all those others don't play well in that sort
of environment.  For those, you have applications that understand the data
at a structured level.

Dennis