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I've been disappointed to see a massive uptick in people writing a whole Python subprocess script instead of just an awk column select. They usually know awk, b
by shakna 2y ago
I've been disappointed to see a massive uptick in people writing a whole Python subprocess script instead of just an awk column select. They usually know awk, but Python is more familiar so they replace ten characters with a couple hundred.
It seems like fewer even want to learn a shell pipeline.
- Qem 2y agoThere was actually attempts to recreate Awk inside Python. See https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk