Kill it with fire. On Aug 2, 2012 1:42 PM, "Martin Kopta" <mar...@kopta.eu> wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 04:34 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: >> >>> >>> I think cut is exactly the kind of job that awk (or sed) can be good >>> for. It seems crazy not to use an existing tool that implements all >>> the functionality, that can be nicely bundled in a a script. >>> >>> >> To be honest, I feel the same way about head(1) -- why bother >> maintaining C when the tool is obviously a subset of another tool? >> > > This is what happens. > > http://perllinux.sourceforge.**net/ <http://perllinux.sourceforge.net/> > "A Linux distribution where ALL programs are written in perl." > >
