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Hi, Alan. |
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:03:47PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 12:17 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Neil Bothwick |
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> did opine thusly: |
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> > On Tue, 17 May 2011 18:38:33 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> > > Not addressed at you, specifically, but it rather seems like sed & |
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> > > awk are much under-appreciated these days. I'd guess that this may |
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> > > be due to the changing nature of *nix users, but they seem to have |
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> > > "gone out of fashion". Aside from sed's simple replace, I have |
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> > > certainly never learned to do anything useful with them. |
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> > They both have a steep initial learning curve, which leads to their |
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> > adoption being put off. I put awk in the same category as screen, one |
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> > of those programs that you hear people going on about for years, but |
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> > always manage to put off trying them. Once you do try them, you use |
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> > them for everything but slicing bread. |
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> Add bash to that list. |
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> Have you read the full man page for the bloody thing? |
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You're not meant to read that man page through from beginning to end. |
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Anybody who could learn bash that way would be superhuman. |
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Unfortunately, the info pages for bash are not well organised. So |
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beginners have to learn from books, many of which are not good. |
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And bash is about the most disorganised, arbitrary language around, full |
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of crazy little quirks and odd sytaxes. And I love it. ;-) |
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> No wonder most folk stop at launching it after login |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |