On Tue, 17 May 2011 18:38:33 +0100, Stroller wrote:

> Not addressed at you, specifically, but it rather seems like sed & awk
> are much under-appreciated these days. I'd guess that this may be due
> to the changing nature of *nix users, but they seem to have "gone out
> of fashion". Aside from sed's simple replace, I have certainly never
> learned to do anything useful with them.

They both have a steep initial learning curve, which leads to their
adoption being put off. I put awk in the same category as screen, one of
those programs that you hear people going on about for years, but always
manage to put off trying them. Once you do try them, you use them for
everything but slicing bread.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Hors d'oeuvres: 3 sandwiches cut into 40 pieces.