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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-23 at 15:33

I've been a Linux user since 1997, and I still will never understand how awk works.

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Written by Jemal Cole Loves You on 2025-01-23 at 15:57

@benpocalypse you're probably better off with sed anyway. (Not that it's any less inexplicable)

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-23 at 16:02

@jemal At my very best, I just pipe the outputs to a text file. You're right, sed is just as crazy.

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Written by Jemal Cole Loves You on 2025-01-23 at 16:05

@benpocalypse Yeah, same.

A friend of mine from way back (Greg S. Ubben) spent some time remaking various Unix command-line tools with sed. (He called it GSU: Greg's Sed Unix, because those were the jokes we made in the mid-90s.) But you could just skip installing GNU awk and tr and whatnot as long as you had sed, which, I know, makes no sense.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-23 at 16:07

@jemal 🙃

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