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Yes but you can't learn perl as quickly as you can learn awk.
by Scarbutt 5y ago
Yes but you can't learn perl as quickly as you can learn awk.
- jfk13 5y agoThough you can learn just enough perl to do awk-like things fairly easily. And then grow from there as needed.
- throwawayboise 5y agoIDK. On my OpenBSD system the awk man page is under 500 lines, and it pretty much covers the subject. I've tried to get started in Perl a few times, and just found it weird. It doesn't click. Awk is kind of weird too but it's so simple it doesn't matter. I'm sure I would eventually get Perl if I had to use it. But for me, awk and sed and shell scripting have covered my needs.