GNUsticia

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What GNUsticia does basically is, it takes as input many different lists, each one with many differente cases, and then performs a filtering process (by way of using tools like grep, awk and sed, among others), yielding as a result a somewhat quite smaller subset of cases, containing only those that are of interest to the person running the script. In others word, imagine a list containing between 70 and 300 cases, of which you are only interested, in average -maybe, just maybe-, let's say in 2 or 3. That's a very low percentage. Now, imagine that your cases (the ones that interest you) can be located anywhere in that list. You don't know in anticipation where your cases will show up, so you know that you''ll be forced to scan over the list till you find what you're looking for. Ok, now let's imagine that there isn't just that one list we've been talking about, but many other similar ones. Let's say as many as 150, each one needing the same procedure. And finally, let's imagine doing this daily from Monday to Friday, every week, every month (except January and two weeks on July because of holidays), every year of your working life. Pretty dull, time-consuming and error prone routine, isn't it? Well, I've been trying you to imagine this scenario because (luckily) there are some companies that will do that for you (if you want of course), for a fee. Well, that's where GNUsticia and Free Software come in the rescue of those of us, who prefer to trust our data to Free Software tools, like Bash; and in the long run, allow us to save some money.