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But then Kernigan contributed to awk which does regexes, count lines, and enough other things that there are 500 page books on how to use the tool. Maybe string

But then Kernigan contributed to awk which does regexes, count lines, and enough other things that there are 500 page books on how to use the tool. Maybe stringing together grep and wc wasn’t always enough.

AnimalMuppet 3y ago
Of course it wasn't always enough. It was enough to be useful in many situations, and not enough to be useful in all situations. So there's awk. And it's useful in some situations, but not in all. So there's C. (And some will say it's not useful in all situations...)