Tell me what you think of sed and awk

[Bill Jones]

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"Bill Jones" <bill at fccj.org> wrote -


> I started reading the book included with it, "sed and awk" and I can't
> help but think that I can do all this with Perl. Sometimes it might
> make more sense to use sed and/or awk for quick one liners, but is it
> worth the trouble to learn? sed and awk were what people relied on
> before Perl came along, and those same people still rely on sed and awk
> because they are familiar with them, but should new users learn them?


I have the sed & awk book, plus many many other ORA books...

sed & awk are the one of the REASONS Perl exists today :)
sed and awk are cool, for quick and dirty, but Perl is better long term.

HTH,
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