Re: a sed question

On 22.12.2024 01:28, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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 ...

My comment was on Unix systems (not specifically Linux) and on
the Unix standards (POSIX).

Not sure what you read and understood where I wrote "standard".

Awk is demanded by POSIX, Perl isn't.

So on any standard conforming Unix you are guaranteed to *have*
a 'sh' (POSIX-shell) and an 'awk'. Moreover, even if you are
developing on a system with Perl, but will have to implement
(run) the software in a different environment, you may not be
allowed to install third party software (open or else) with it.

(One may not like such company policies but they are reality.)

Janis