An object-oriented shell

awk, grep, sed, etc.: Extract and transform attributes of objects represented as strings.

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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 5960 ris       16   0  283m 106m 4076 S  0.0 21.3   2:35.09 java

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  File: `/home/jao/.bashrc'
  Size: 876       	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 303h/771d	Inode: 3721522     Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1006/     jao)   Gid: ( 1007/     jao)
Access: 2006-01-27 13:50:32.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2006-01-11 10:48:56.000000000 -0500
Change: 2006-01-11 10:48:56.000000000 -0500