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   by asicsp 3y ago

   I wouldn't put Perl as easier to use, but it certainly is more powerful and has a vast ecosystem. And it is more portable, since there's no need to worry about GNU/BSD/etc variations. And I wrote a book for Perl one-line
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   by asicsp 3y ago

   I use Gumroad/Leanpub to sell my ebooks. As far as I know, they don't support the "choose to pay after" model. You can see the number of paid sales for the bundles under the "I want this!" button. When the pric
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   by asicsp 3y ago

   Depends on the task. Sed is typically used for search and replace and Awk is better suited for field based processing. Both these tools also have filtering features (regexp based, line number based, range, etc). See also: When to use grep,
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   by asicsp 3y ago

   You're welcome and thanks for the feedback :) Yeah, the web version is always free for all of my ebooks. And you can find the markdown source on GitHub, for example: https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk&#
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   by asicsp 3y ago

   Hello! Author here. I am pleased to announce a new version of my "CLI text processing with GNU awk" ebook. Learn the `GNU awk` command step-by-step from beginner to advanced levels with hundreds of examples and exercises. This boo
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   CLI text processing with GNU awk(learnbyexample.github.io)

   419 points by asicsp 3y ago|129 comments
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   by asicsp 3y ago

   See also: "Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37274882 (74 points | 16 hours ago | 28 comments)
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   by asicsp 3y ago

   Dupe? https://wordpress.com/100-year/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37271764 (74 points | 1 day ago | 111 comments)
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   by asicsp 3y ago

   See also: * https://linuxsurvival.com/ * https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxupskillchallenge/ * https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps (written by me, interactive exercises fo
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    Some of the substantial previous discussions: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31566031 (460 points | May 31, 2022 | 139 comments) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26097732 (359 points | Feb
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    Ichido: An independent search engine inspired by 90s-2000s search(ichi.do)

    2 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    Understanding Immortal Objects in Python 3.12: A Deep Dive into Python Internals(codeconfessions.substack.com)

    6 points by asicsp 3y ago|1 comments
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    A short and intense introduction to Haskell (2019)(yannesposito.com)

    3 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    I use both. Separate profile for a bunch of sites not used daily, and you also get separate bookmarks.
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    Learn GNU Awk with hundreds of examples and exercises(learnbyexample.github.io)

    4 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    Any particular reason to use -print0 and pipe instead of -exec?
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    Didn't know about the book: https://zenodo.org/record/1146014 (discussed 4 years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726631 ) See also https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gnu+paralle
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    Related discussion: "FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002574 (381 points | 3 months ago | 358 comments)
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    Mau: Lightweight markup language inspired by AsciiDoc, Asciidoctor and Markdown(github.com)

    1 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    samply: Command line CPU profiler which uses the Firefox profiler as its UI(github.com)

    3 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: Interactive exercises for GNU grep, sed and awk(github.com)

    4 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    See also: https://bellard.org/nncp/ NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27244004 (397 points | May 22, 2021 | 160 comments)
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    I personally just use GVim (for both code and markdown for my ebooks). See if https://ghostwriter.kde.org/ (FOSS) helps? Source code is at https://github.com/KDE/ghostwriter (written in C++)
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30363506 (291 points | Feb 16, 2022 | 96 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21013150 (746 points | Sept 19, 2019 | 248 comments) Se
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    Thanks for the kind words! I'm currently revising my awk book (expect to release by end of this month). You can check out the interactive TUI app ( https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/tree/main&#x2F
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    See also: * https://danluu.com/programming-books/ * https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develo... I collect resources for Python, Linux, Vim, etc. See https://learnbyexampl
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    by asicsp 3y ago

    See also: Sokoban game implemented in sed https://github.com/aureliojargas/sokoban.sed
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    A Blog Post with Every HTML Element(patrickweaver.net)

    3 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    Generalising the Fast Reciprocal Square Root Algorithm(arxiv.org)

    3 points by asicsp 3y ago|0 comments
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    Using Vim's abbreviations (2020)(vonheikemen.github.io)

    39 points by asicsp 3y ago|4 comments