> Also, awk has a fun way of parsing input, which makes for very enjoyable one liners.
Yes, being able to casually toss off an awk (or sed) one-liner is a very convenient skill to have.
Yes, being able to casually toss off an awk (or sed) one-liner is a very convenient skill to have.
It's nice that the mentality comes out of using certain languages though.
sed -e 'NR == 123425938039 { print; exit; }' < file
Fast as hell and takes no memory to speak of. Google 'awesome awk' for goodies.[0]: Yes, this happens.
sed -n 123425938039p file?
To be fair, this one won't exit early.