Short: Flat File Extractor Author: Timo Savinen, Morphos port by Fabrizio "Lanch" Bartoloni Uploader: lanch tiscali it (Fabrizio Bartoloni) Type: text/misc Version: 0.2.3 Architecture: ppc-morphos Copyright © 2007 Timo Savinen Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions. 1 Preliminary information The ffe program is a used to extract fields from flat files and to print them in different formats. The input file structure and printing definitions are defined in a configuration file, which is always required. Default configuration file is ~/.fferc ( ffe.rc in windows). ffe is a command line tool developed for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. ffe can read from standard input and write to standard output, so it can be used as a part of a pipeline.