Apparently, though unproven, at 12:17 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 18:38:33 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > Not addressed at you, specifically, but it rather seems like sed & awk > > are much under-appreciated these days. I'd guess that this may be due > > to the changing nature of *nix users, but they seem to have "gone out > > of fashion". Aside from sed's simple replace, I have certainly never > > learned to do anything useful with them. > > They both have a steep initial learning curve, which leads to their > adoption being put off. I put awk in the same category as screen, one of > those programs that you hear people going on about for years, but always > manage to put off trying them. Once you do try them, you use them for > everything but slicing bread. Add bash to that list. Have you read the full man page for the bloody thing? No wonder most folk stop at launching it after login -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
