m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Awk is just too weird for normal people. I wouldn't even suggest reading that manual. If you can't do what you want with regexps and a pipeline of simpler programs, you might as well use perl.
<Looks around, yeah, this *is* a list for sysadmins of Linux....>
Reading the response, I realize you were serious, not being funny, as I thought.
Yes, I'm serious that if you don't already know awk, there is little to be gained from looking at it now. Perl can do everything awk can do and more, while shell scripts can do the simpler things.
Ok, there's no point to continuing this - I use whatever tool I feel like, and which is simplest to me to do the job: the *Nix way. I also know a perl bigot when I see one.
You *also* missed the reason I was pushing the original poster to read the man page, rather than just do what I said, without trying to understand what I was suggesting they do - they made a sytactical mistake that would have had the *same* result in perl - he missed the closing / on the expression <snip> mark