IDK. On my OpenBSD system the awk man page is under 500 lines, and it pretty much covers the subject.
I've tried to get started in Perl a few times, and just found it weird. It doesn't click. Awk is kind of weird too but it's so simple it doesn't matter.
I'm sure I would eventually get Perl if I had to use it. But for me, awk and sed and shell scripting have covered my needs.
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Yes but you can't learn perl as quickly as you can learn awk.
Though you can learn just enough perl to do awk-like things fairly easily. And then grow from there as needed.
IDK. On my OpenBSD system the awk man page is under 500 lines, and it pretty much covers the subject.
I've tried to get started in Perl a few times, and just found it weird. It doesn't click. Awk is kind of weird too but it's so simple it doesn't matter.
I'm sure I would eventually get Perl if I had to use it. But for me, awk and sed and shell scripting have covered my needs.