[Novalug] sed syntax question

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

donjr wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 02:23 -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>   
>> You violated on of Root Boy's Laws: Never Use AWK
>>     
>
> You lost me with this unknown reference to "Root Boy". Who is that?
I am Root Boy Jim. I used to post a LOT back in the 80s when I was at 
NBS (now NIST) and the early 90s when I was at UUNET. Google for "Root 
Boy Jim" *with* the quotes.

My Notoriety has been Permanently Enshrined in Code that has been ported 
to many languages.

	u_long rbj;	/* r*B+u[j] (not root boy jim) */

AWK lives between SH and Perl in complexity. My point is, use SH for simple things, and use Perl for complex ones. Thus:

	Never Use AWK

AWK has, um, awkward syntax. I always hated it, even before Perl came along.

And don't tell me that Perl isn't always available. If it isn't, Carry It With You. Compile it yourself.

JIM