Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by natecavanaugh on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:47AM
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I gotta say, I really enjoyed skimming through this, and saving it for future reference. I can already tell there are some basic things that I should've memorized with all the one liners I've used, but because most were cobbled together for the immediate task (and many online forum searches assume a lot of prior knowledge), so t this presentation, and cookbook style references really help me hold the practical benefits in memory alot longer, so thanks again!
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Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by asicsp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:42AM
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thanks, that means a lot to me :)
if you are interested in text processing in general, do check the other chapters for grep/sed/perl/sort/paste/pr/etc
I learned a lot writing them up and marvel at the speed and functionality provided by these tools.. for many cases, it is lot easier to write a bash script combining these tools than to write a Perl/Python/Ruby script..