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If you don't mind a bit of Perl, then Perl can be used for grep, awk and sed. And find. Even comes with little conversion utilities to do it (mostly) for you:
by emmelaich 9y ago
If you don't mind a bit of Perl, then Perl can be used for grep, awk and sed. And find. Even comes with little conversion utilities to do it (mostly) for you: a2p, s2p, find2perl.
I used Python most of the time but still use Perl where it is appropriate.
- jedimastert 9y agoperl is still one of my favorite programming languages to use for straight text-manipulation
- jwilk 9y agoThese converters were actually removed from Perl in v5.21.1. They are available as a separate distributions on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/App::a2p https://metacpan.org/pod/App::a2p https://metacpan.org/pod/App::s2p https://metacpan.org/pod/App::s2p https://metacpan.org/pod/App::find2perl https://metacpan.org/pod/App::find2perl