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 1QMm8l-0002vj-OO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:10:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2672A1C098; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:04:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1E11C098 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so1854064wyi.40 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 12:04:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=SFGQU3PMq6IKH0pnIxK9Db3rLR/IQV92S7nxjyFaZdI=; b=VnNjE3crOyeM4gBXOAnhUkjbQJgTXqdUl8WHaBw7H9ieYzTWfdT6Tur5ckttu5T2mD HibN0RdXub2pjCWy97hhKQiQDtt830GCzKZOFj+W9XSw2wXzA4UJlnhRgVnZKdMt2Enz ntkD7BAFk1uwHdC2NtTYmWU+GxtcCwHydEuCQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=cgk8KKD3+A5WE44LoRVbtm7tQE+crrnqZRAj07GaeRx/yFYsE17+s1DqNgm6j9PM+m p4BeZRwpatOsy8narSMZj0Ur8/IupUAtcQm+lIJl3L5e3zc6BJM8Gt50SxhQ3czIbXJ4 Z/vkPyxODPYR0ve65FWfA2XHIPpyeMCNVIHxc= Received: by 10.227.208.65 with SMTP id gb1mr2265318wbb.42.1305745474016; Wed, 18 May 2011 12:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bi13sm1144234wbb.42.2011.05.18.12.04.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 May 2011 12:04:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 21:03:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DD1AEC8.5010501@earthlink.net> <20110518111724.127af1a3@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110518111724.127af1a3@digimed.co.uk> 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: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105182103.47416.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9333a1e14b548ee604ccb88623f38d77 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com