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Richard sounds like he's saying you should have to do everything the hard way.



No, you misunderstood my post.

It is not clear in your first initial post what you are actually asking for, and you are mixing this with observations about difficulties you've had using things like Shell.

My post both provides you with an immediate solution for your difficulties and attempts to clarify what featrues you think should be added to KiXtart that would help everyone who uses it.

Things like sed, grep and awk have some great facilities, many of which would be very useful in KiXtart, but not everyone knows these utilities or which particular features you would find useful.

Try organising your request into a bullet point list of specific features that you think would be generally useful in KiXtart. Try to simplify each feature as far as possible so that it describes a definite action. If you cannot do it in a single short sentence then it probably isn't appropriate.

For example, from your posts we can assume that you would like to see:
  • Support for extended pattern matching (regular expressions) for KiXtart basic data types
  • Support for reading a specific line in a text file
  • Support for writing (to) a specific line in a text file
  • Support for deleting a specific line in a text file
  • Support for inserting a new line in a text file
  • Support for reading the ouput of SHELL'ed commands