On 19/10/2017 22:12, Ingo Wichmann wrote: > Hi, > > Am 19.10.2017 um 14:35 schrieb kenn...@floss.cat: >> And please, add a bit of AWK, people gets stunned with quite simple awk >> tricks. > Oh, the awk discussion again. I don't think awk's relevance rose since > we discussed it last time. > > Awk is a processing language. Simply asking for the top 10 awk onliners > is not an option. To give it the respect it deserves, we'd have to cover > it's syntax, data-types and functions. For how much weight? I 2nd covering awk. We cover sed which is also a lot more complex than the one liner included in the objectives. For me the purpose is not to turn the candidate into an awk expert but to make them aware of awk and its usefulness. Much more relevant and useful than some of the other commands we cover.
> Awk has its use cases, but all of these use cases can be solved with > other tools as well. Many of them with text-utils and bash. Others with > perl, python, ruby or other languages. > > Ingo > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- Mark Clarke 📱 +2711-781 8014 🌍 www.JumpingBean.co.za _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
