Re: awk has its place

[davorg]

I'd do that as:

ls -l|perl -pale '$_=$F[4]'

which saves a couple of characters. I know what you mean, but I forgot most of the awk and sed that I ever knew when I learnt Perl.

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and the boring jobs bearable" - me

[grinder]

True enough, but using fewer characters isn't necessarily faster (to type). There's four switches needed, whereas that p-r-i-n-t just rolls off the finger r-l-r-r-l and that tick dollar underscore equals dollar F has you bouncing up and down on the shift key. It just ain't as smooth.

Reflecting on this, the few vestiges of awk that remain are more in my fingers than in my head.


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