[CentOS] grep
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 22:04:33 UTC 2007
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:31:08AM -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:27 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
>>>>> $ sed '/bar/,+5d' xx
>>>>> line 1
>>>>> line 2
>>>>> line after 6
>>>>> line after 7
>>>>>
>>>> Beautiful man! Hats off. I've never used sed like that but I'll surely
>>>> remember that one. Thanks from everybody.
>>> "sed" is a very nice tool. You can do amazing things with it. I once did
>>> a XML to HTML (limited) parser in it. I know someone that even coded
>>> a "Sokoban"-like game with sed and nothing else.
>>> Mastering sed really makes life much easier.
>> If sed had been invented first we wouldn't have needed grep. Then again, if
>> perl had been invented first we wouldn't need either - or a few hundred
>> other tools...
>
> Ick. I hate perl.
It's easy to hate perl that other people have written, but you can write
your own in whatever style you like.
> If I find something I can't do in bash/sed/awk, I just code it in C :)
You can write perl that looks like C - but if you aren't using hashes
and regexps you'll do a lot more work. And pretty much everything that
anyone might need to do has already been written and is available on CPAN.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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