Thanks Mark, Shane and Sander for your advice on this, it feels like
I've crossed the finish line, although with this project it's more
like crossing the starting line!
set myShell to "tr '\\r' '\\n' " & pathName
set myPattern to "|(TRAV)|"
set myShell to "tr '\\r' '\\n' <" & pathName & " | grep " & quoted
form of myPattern
do shell script myShell
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On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:14am, Shane Stanley wrote:
> do shell script "tr '\\r' '\\n' <" & pathName &...