On 08/03/18 17:12, Klaatu wrote: > I'd like to publicly thank b-yeezi and Dave Morriss for their amazing > series on awk. > > tl;dr: I learned awk from their HPR series and have used it every day > this week. It has changed my life. > > Long version: > > I have to confess that I've had the O'Reilly "Sed and Awk" book on my > bookshelf for over 5 years (in fact, it's one maybe 6 books I brought > with me from the US to New Zealand when I moved). Tried to read it > several times, got basically nowhere. > > And yet at least once a fortnight, I'd encounter some situation that > would make me think "I'll bet this would be really easy with awk. I > should really learn awk." > > Still, no dice. > > This has gone on for at least FIVE YEARS. > > On Monday of this week, however, I had to write a vitally important > script for work. I knew this script was a perfect use case for awk, so I > downloaded the awk series, followed along, and by the end of the day, > I'd written my script. And yesterday, I wrote a converter script for > some RPG resources I'd had lying around for the past year, waiting for > manual conversion to docbook. > > I've been using awk every day this week, and don't see myself putting it > aside...ever. Thank you for your series, guys. It's improved my Linux > experience, which I was pretty sure had already reached a pinnacle. > Nope, it just keeps getting better. > > And I owe it ALL to HPR. <- cue the outro. > > > -klaatu
Hey klaatu, thanks a lot for your kind words. I'm so glad you are finding the series useful. Feedback like this is a massive boost to the motivation too. I became very enthusiastic about Awk when I discovered it in the late 1980's, and have been a fan ever since. I know b-yeezi also uses it a lot too, and I'd wager he's an enthusiast as well. If we have managed to share our enthusiasm via HPR then I'd say it's mission accomplished... :-) Oh, and there's more to come. I'm currently working on episode 10. Dave -- Dave Morriss, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
