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Re:Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc ... by billybob on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:39AM (#2471015)
A valid question, but a counter-question is: which is more expensive: development time, or run time?

The answer is usually (but not always) developer time.

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Re:Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc ... by jojo1 on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:56AM (#2471082)
I'm using grep/awk/sed all day long, I need never more than 10 seconds to build a command group...
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