On 3/7/08, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't deny the utility of old tools. i use sed myself all the time. > > but to actually devote /lots/ of effort to "master" these ancient > tools... i think that's what migs is getting at too. google is just a > keystroke away, it makes no sense to devote more than minimal effort > to these tools.
FWIW, Perl differences against sed and awk are documented in perltrap.[0] A Perl programmer going the way of sed and awk can take these traps the opposite way (and read up the corresponding man pages) to know sed and awk just as well as Perl. :) [0] http://perldoc.perl.org/perltrap.html Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
