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Why would being part of coreutils matter? Awk is part of POSIX, just like tr and cut. Even in very constraint environments you can count on it via busybox.
by em500 7y ago
Why would being part of coreutils matter? Awk is part of POSIX, just like tr and cut. Even in very constraint environments you can count on it via busybox.
- chme 7y agoA lot of stuff is part in POSIX, but not all of that is available on every system. Also busybox configurations can vary a lot.
- ggm 7y agoA perpetual argument is use of too many pipe separated distinct commands. The argument suggests it's lazy to use sed | awk | grep type pipe runs because in all probability sed or awk alone could have done it and you incurred two excess fork/exec() and therefore consumed kernel and userspace beyond your need. The usual rejoinder is "get nicked"