Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by busterarm on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:38AM
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I think my tendency to reach for grep/sed/awk might be the thing that led me away from software development full-time and into the ops world.
Too many times I encountered 200+ line Python scripts that I could replace with an Awk one-liner and a cron job.
My lazy habit in my Ruby work eventually became to parse JSON/XML/whatever into usable text, shelling out to sed/awk and working with the results. This would not only save me LoC, but was less error-prone.
Too many times I encountered 200+ line Python scripts that I could replace with an Awk one-liner and a cron job.
My lazy habit in my Ruby work eventually became to parse JSON/XML/whatever into usable text, shelling out to sed/awk and working with the results. This would not only save me LoC, but was less error-prone.