On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:36:30PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-02-25, at 13:22, Jeremy Stephens wrote: > >I found myself needing to run awk on all the lines of a text file > >except the first one. > > I kind of have a teenie bit of software hate for things like "foo | > awk ..." instead of "awk 'foo-equiv && /whatever/' ...", but that's > mostly leftover hate from the PDP-11 and Xenix-286 days when that > much overhead mattered.
I like awk. Oh, sorry, this is the hates list; OK, then I hate gawk. The sheer size of the kitchen-sink mentality should have made the GNU foundation collapse to a singularity about the time they added special filenames for network sockets to awk. -- Bruce Remember you're a Womble.
