Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:50:54 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any awk gurus on the list? Message-ID: <4D47F011BCB8F123288A2CEE@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <868w40izhk.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <23BA961B74BA2B5CA8B523F9@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <868w40izhk.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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--On Friday, August 20, 2010 17:24:55 -0700 "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote: >>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> writes: > > Paul> Yes, I know I could do this easily in Perl. I'm doing this to try > Paul> and improve my understanding of awk. > > To what end? > > Every modern system that can run awk can also run Perl. Why not > concentrate on Perl? Three reasons. Perl is too easy (for this particular problem.) :-) Perl isn't part of the base system for FreeBSD. # ls -lsa /usr/bin/perl 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 25 Jul 29 22:53 /usr/bin/perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl5.12.1 # ls -lsa /usr/bin/awk 134 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 135472 Jul 4 2008 /usr/bin/awk It never hurts to learn new things, especially things that might get you out of a jam when a system isn't working as expected and you have access to a limited number of tools to solve the problem. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson
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