> Yes, awk and sed were replaced by Perl,
I still use awk and sed semi regularly. I haven’t used Perl in over a decade.
I still use awk and sed semi regularly. I haven’t used Perl in over a decade.
They've become much more useful because of the influence of things like perl.
To see what I mean, here's SunOS 4.1.1's man page for awk and sed as grabbed from https://github.com/ambiamber/Run-Sun3-SunOS-4.1.1/blob/main/... and ran through groffer(1) . These are from 1989 and 1987 respectively. The core stuff is there but not much else.
POSIX was initially a bunch of the Unix vendors getting together in the 80s seeing a rise of incompatibility saying "this shit is crazy let's find something we can agree on" and then the conflicts of trying to still have a differentiating But Also compatible product. They knew that if they cannibalized themselves, IBM Novell and DEC were there to snatch up the customers
As a result, POSIX was intentionally kneecapped by all the players but not enough to make it completely worthless.
By the 2010s I decided to simply ignore it and if something breaks on FreeBSD or whatever, make the decision then whether to support it or not. Mostly it's platform testing at the top and then subbing the gnu version of things and bailing out if it's not there.
I was incorrect about 30 years. It's actually 35.
You were the one that that said POSIX awk to begin with, I was using your terms. I understand what you meant, why don't you?
As far as shitting on the GMU tools, I don't think I've seen someone do that in decades, especially just referencing the bottom of the man page like that.
As far as speed, I don't know how you're using these tools, but if gawk is your bottleneck and not i/o, there's probably smarter ways to do things.
This is not a productive conversation. You can live life however you want and if you're happy than I'm happy. We are definitely at an impasse. I'm off to bed.
Same. Awk and Sed are delightful little tools that have aged exceptionally well.
Other than that, I'm completely shocked that somebody would praise sed or awk in well into the 21st century. Turing-complete languages barely capable of properly solving any problem that has any sort of algorithmic complexity, let alone one that requires proper data types, variables or interacting with any sort of system. Really, you can do that in Perl (even in Raku) without your couple-of-liner horribly breaking down once you need some custom logic to it. Oh, and it will even resemble programming languages, not some hieroglyphs left behind by aliens.