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>AWK seems to be having a renaissance I'd say grep, sed and awk are essential tools to know for cli text processing. I think more programmers are getting used
by asicsp 5y ago
>AWK seems to be having a renaissance
I'd say grep, sed and awk are essential tools to know for cli text processing. I think more programmers are getting used to cli (git, wsl, etc) which would lead to these tools.
I reach for perl when I need its advanced regexp features, built-in functions, etc.
- eggy 5y agoI agree especially since I started programming in 1978 and awk had just been created a year earlier. I did not learn of it until the late 80s with gawk, and sed much later. I forget when I first touched grep. I do remember using perl quite a bit for text munging in the early 90s. I currently use Powershell a lot more because of its convenience in Windows, and all of the assemblies you can call on, and I still use awk, grep, and others through WSL2. My favorite language, J, is fun for the same tasks [0,1]. [0] jsoftware.com [1] https://dev.to/bakerjd99/jetl-j-extract-transform-and-load-9cm