[Leaplist] How many of you use awk?

[Robert Tate]

Because it is on all Unix/Linux systems and Perl/Python/Ruby may not be there 
by default. 

On Sunday 15 April 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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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