Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 12:17 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Neil Bothwick 
did opine thusly:

> 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.


Add bash to that list.

Have you read the full man page for the bloody thing?

No wonder most folk stop at launching it after login



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