[Leaplist] How many of you use awk?

[Steve Litt]

Hi Jim,

Why do you use awk instead of Perl/Python/Ruby?

SteveT

On Saturday 14 April 2007 21:40, Jim Hartley wrote:
> All the time! Recently I have been using it a lot on reformatting short
> story manuscripts - every place you want to submit to asks for files
> formatted differently. Also EXTREMELY useful for building shell scripts
> ... like a whole bunch of "mv foo.JPEG/JPG/jpeg foo.jpg" commands to
> clean up file names in a directory. A quick count shows that I have 48
> .awk files in my ~/bin directory, plus many more scattered around, plus
> of course the one-liners I just type in as needed.
>
> Awk is one of the most valuable tools in my toolbox.
>
> Jim Hartley
>
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How many of you use awk?
> >
> > SteveT
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