Comment on Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old LanguageComments−shp0ngle5yawk is fast and really useful.It's also generally unreadable.−coliveira5yI don't agree. Awk is very readable for people used to c-like languages like javascript. And it is much cleaner that Perl.−gpderetta5yIt is certainly more readable than sed for example.−throwawayboise5yYeah I use sed not infrequently but try to keep things simple. Anything more complicated than a "standard" sed one-liner (google it) I will start looking for something else.
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awk is fast and really useful.
It's also generally unreadable.
I don't agree. Awk is very readable for people used to c-like languages like javascript. And it is much cleaner that Perl.
It is certainly more readable than sed for example.
Yeah I use sed not infrequently but try to keep things simple. Anything more complicated than a "standard" sed one-liner (google it) I will start looking for something else.