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Er, it's a world all of us live in. Say, for example, ‘ps’ or ‘ls -1l’. Then you end up using awk, which is rather like a half-assed version of powershell to w
by PeCaN 10y ago
Er, it's a world all of us live in. Say, for example, ‘ps’ or ‘ls -1l’.
Then you end up using awk, which is rather like a half-assed version of powershell to work around shortcomings with the unix everything-is-a-string design.
- dangerlibrary 10y agoParent comment was talking about parsing the raw output from a database in stdout. That's what I was responding to, and I'm not wrong.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoAWK isn't a workaround. It's a tool for processing tabular data, in a textual format. The fact that it can solve so many problems is actually a strength of the EIAS design.