From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMdr9-00074s-7J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 10:19:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C975B1C143; Wed, 18 May 2011 10:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6001C143 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 10:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FFF480144 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 11:17:25 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 11:17:24 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D Message-ID: <20110518111724.127af1a3@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4DD1AEC8.5010501@earthlink.net> <201105170133.39864.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20110517082537.27317958@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs22 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/2jeWFCYlSMvNW_BSn7O26kS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 67fefde738f0fd4f3c01625ff62b9063 --Sig_/2jeWFCYlSMvNW_BSn7O26kS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Hors d'oeuvres: 3 sandwiches cut into 40 pieces. --Sig_/2jeWFCYlSMvNW_BSn7O26kS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3TnLQACgkQum4al0N1GQPfRQCg2sCg3A0mjRWaAs1P6DAqpU2B OYsAn2X3Xwe+lwoNFt99e66ziBNyHec+ =tJqe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2jeWFCYlSMvNW_BSn7O26kS--