For the Love of Pipes

Re:For the Love of Pipes by anthk on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @09:45PM (#18975208)

awk can do all of that except sed. And I am not sure about the last. No need to wc ($NF in AWK, if I can recall), no need for grep, you have the /match/ statement, with regex too.

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Re:For the Love of Pipes by Crestwave on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:02AM (#18976525)

> except sed

Doesn't gsub(/a/, "b") do the same thing as s/a/b/g?

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Re:For the Love of Pipes by anthk on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:19PM (#18982398)

Yes, I recall it hours ago.

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