Re: a sed question

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:02:03 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

The advantage of Awk is that it's standard on Unix systems ...

>
On my Debian system:
>
    ldo@theon:~> apt-cache rdepends gawk | wc -l
    89
    ldo@theon:~> apt-cache rdepends perl | wc -l
    1121
>
Let’s just say, you’re more likely to find Perl than Awk on a Linux
system ...

I don't see how your conclusion follows from the data (of how many
packages depend on gawk and perl, respectively).  I'd be surprised to
see *any* Linux distribution (other than small embedded systems) that
doesn't include awk (either gawk or mawk, or even busybox awk) by
default.

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