Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:30:25 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <a0600123cbb20a4be710f@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626113553.GA53078@packet.org.uk> <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk>
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At 12:51 PM +0100 2003/06/26, Paul Robinson wrote:
>> Does anyone actually USE awk?
>
> Yes.
Yes.
>> Other than to filter columns that is.
>
> That's exactly what it's used for.
Yes. Otherwise, I would use `cut`.
Awk is extensively used by the shell script tools that I am the
maintainer for. Granted, I inherited most of them from people like
Bryan Beecher (e.g., popstats, smtpstats), Paul Mockapetris (e.g.,
doc, lamers), etc... but it is extensively used by these tools. I
hope to move the ones I care most about to Perl, or work to
incorporate their features into other programs (e.g., dnswalk, lire
from logreport.org, etc...).
>> But as awk is usually available on other Unixes, I'm apt to rely on it's
>> existance. So I'd hate to see it go.
>
> There is nothing stopping it being a port/package.
True, but I'd still hate to see it go. It's been such a basic
part of *nix for so long that I think way more people have come to
count on it than anyone realizes.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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