[conspire] vim vs sed awk and grep + interactive vs automation [was Re: Slice of life]

[Paul Zander]

A few years ago, my situation was the exact inverse.  After coming up to speed on shell scripts, the question was what next, sed?  awk?  My boss was of the opinion that Perl was a better solution.  Fortunately he also allowed the time to go do some self study and later paid for the courses through UCSC extension.

The good news is that anything that can be done in Perl can be done in multiple ways.  The bad news is the flexibility allows sloppy programming.  

I created a quick reference to Perl for my own use.  If there is interest, I can share it.

Paul

--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>

... snip ...

However, the point is that I am already decently good with sed, awk,
find, xargs, egrep, and my friend the Bourne data mill, and haven't yet
bothered to learn similar proficiency with Perl.  So, until I hit parts
of the problem space where my current main tools prove to be blunt
instruments, I keep using them.
 

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