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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 & awk |
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> > are much under-appreciated these days. I'd guess that this may be due |
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> > to the changing nature of *nix users, but they seem to have "gone out |
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> > of fashion". Aside from sed's simple replace, I have certainly never |
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> > 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 of |
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> those programs that you hear people going on about for years, but always |
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> manage to put off trying them. Once you do try them, you use them for |
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> 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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No wonder most folk stop at launching it after login |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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