begin quoting David Kinchen as of Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:12:50AM -0800: [snip] > As a long time sed and awk user, I find myself using Perl more and more > unless modifying existing scripts. For someone not already familiar > with either sed or awk, your time would be better spent learning Perl.
I like perl for small scripts, but for one-liners, I still use sed and awk. I'm just more comfortable reaching for the old tools than the swiss-army sledgehammer that is perl. My big problem with perl is I only use it rarely; it's do-anything featureset fades w/o constant use. If you're going to do this sort of thing a lot, I agree -- learn perl. If you're going to do this sort of thing rarely, pick up the basics of sed and awk. Handy homeowners should first buy and learn to use a hammer before purchasing an air compression and nailgun. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
