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Why not just start with awk or perl and not fight your tools? Do you wish your screwdriver had a pliers attachment? Are you familiar with the Unix Philosophy?
by judk 12y ago
Why not just start with awk or perl and not fight your tools?
Do you wish your screwdriver had a pliers attachment?
Are you familiar with the Unix Philosophy?
- GuiA 12y agoHaving multi-character delimiters for `cut` doesn't seem as unreasonable to me as having pliers on a screwdriver.
- Shish2k 12y agoLast I checked the unix philosophy was "small tools that each do one thing well". You're saying that perl is a good example of that? IMO making "cut" be better at its one job is more unix-y than using the more complex tools to do conceptually simple things.