Copyright © 2007 Timo Savinen 
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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. 

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[generic]                   27      27 100.0% -lh0- 4ec2 Feb  5  2006 ffe-0.2.3/AUTHORS
[generic]                  718    2061  34.8% -lh5- ac3c Oct 31 12:39 ffe-0.2.3/ChangeLog
[generic]                  962    3391  28.4% -lh5- 5af1 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/config.h
[generic]                  869    3118  27.9% -lh5- 6800 May 30  2007 ffe-0.2.3/config.h.in
[generic]                 5427   34738  15.6% -lh5- 864d Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/config.log
[generic]                10150   30592  33.2% -lh5- cfb1 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/config.status
[generic]                14160   44208  32.0% -lh5- 5f53 Aug 10  2006 ffe-0.2.3/config/config.guess
[generic]                 9965   32448  30.7% -lh5- 0e75 Aug 10  2006 ffe-0.2.3/config/config.sub
[generic]                 5970   17574  34.0% -lh5- 1165 Oct 19  2006 ffe-0.2.3/config/depcomp
[generic]                 5158   13184  39.1% -lh5- 4c54 Oct 19  2006 ffe-0.2.3/config/install-sh
[generic]                 2393    5483  43.6% -lh5- a9c0 Oct 19  2006 ffe-0.2.3/config/mdate-sh
[generic]                 3733   11135  33.5% -lh5- 4fd0 Oct 19  2006 ffe-0.2.3/config/missing
[generic]                81562  239181  34.1% -lh5- ff3c Mar 11  2007 ffe-0.2.3/config/texinfo.tex
[generic]                45847  180349  25.4% -lh5- fd98 May 30  2007 ffe-0.2.3/configure
[generic]                  637    1159  55.0% -lh5- 2d15 May 30  2007 ffe-0.2.3/configure.ac
[generic]                46905  179589  26.1% -lh5- 6f30 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/configure.lineno
[generic]                 7016   18011  39.0% -lh5- 85dd Feb  5  2007 ffe-0.2.3/COPYING
[generic]                 4839   14152  34.2% -lh5- bf5a Oct 30 17:36 ffe-0.2.3/doc/ffe.1
[generic]                11776   46770  25.2% -lh5- 1ae3 Oct 31 12:40 ffe-0.2.3/doc/ffe.html
[generic]                10097   35511  28.4% -lh5- 88c7 Oct 31 12:40 ffe-0.2.3/doc/ffe.info
[generic]                10092   34938  28.9% -lh5- 623a Oct 30 17:44 ffe-0.2.3/doc/ffe.texi
[generic]                 5395   20598  26.2% -lh5- 8716 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/doc/Makefile
[generic]                  167     270  61.9% -lh5- 45e6 May 28  2007 ffe-0.2.3/doc/Makefile.am
[generic]                 5360   20651  26.0% -lh5- d4a0 May 30  2007 ffe-0.2.3/doc/Makefile.in
[generic]                   68      99  68.7% -lh5- 79ab Oct 30 17:44 ffe-0.2.3/doc/stamp-vti
[generic]                  394     953  41.3% -lh5- 1b21 May 28  2007 ffe-0.2.3/doc/texinfo.css
[generic]                   68      99  68.7% -lh5- 79ab Oct 30 17:38 ffe-0.2.3/doc/version.texi
[generic]                24703   65144  37.9% -lh5- 2cf9 Nov  1 18:56 ffe-0.2.3/ffe
[generic]                  649    1326  48.9% -lh5- b20e Nov  1 19:07 ffe-0.2.3/ffe-mos.readme
[generic]                 3688    9498  38.8% -lh5- 9107 Feb  5  2006 ffe-0.2.3/INSTALL
[generic]                 5702   18863  30.2% -lh5- 67f6 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/Makefile
[generic]                   42      42 100.0% -lh0- ede3 Feb  5  2006 ffe-0.2.3/Makefile.am
[generic]                 5675   18933  30.0% -lh5- 0e13 May 30  2007 ffe-0.2.3/Makefile.in
[generic]                   37      37 100.0% -lh0- 89de Feb 28  2006 ffe-0.2.3/NEWS
[generic]                  514     859  59.8% -lh5- a60c May  4  2006 ffe-0.2.3/README
[generic]                  289    1328  21.8% -lh5- 230b Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/src/.deps/execute.Po
[generic]                  286    1316  21.7% -lh5- 549a Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/src/.deps/ffe.Po
[generic]                  288    1328  21.7% -lh5- c363 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/src/.deps/parserc.Po
[generic]                  280    1278  21.9% -lh5- e279 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/src/.deps/xmalloc.Po
[generic]                 9156   42688  21.4% -lh5- 59b2 Oct 29 17:49 ffe-0.2.3/src/execute.c
[generic]                 4958   21015  23.6% -lh5- 2274 Oct 30 17:54 ffe-0.2.3/src/ffe.c
[generic]                 1999    5595  35.7% -lh5- e40c Oct 30 17:44 ffe-0.2.3/src/ffe.h
[generic]                 4007   12466  32.1% -lh5- 44e2 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/src/Makefile
[generic]                   97     112  86.6% -lh5- c3e1 Feb 12  2006 ffe-0.2.3/src/Makefile.am
[generic]                 4024   12999  31.0% -lh5- 79b8 May 30  2007 ffe-0.2.3/src/Makefile.in
[generic]                 7037   43430  16.2% -lh5- dd80 May 30  2007 ffe-0.2.3/src/parserc.c
[generic]                  720    1461  49.3% -lh5- 7c02 Apr  9  2007 ffe-0.2.3/src/xmalloc.c
[generic]                   23      23 100.0% -lh0- 8d53 Nov  1 18:55 ffe-0.2.3/stamp-h1
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