Re: a sed question

On 12/21/2024 3:09 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:13:52 -0600, Ed Morton wrote:
 

for anything else you should just use awk ...

 If you want to suggest Awk, you might as well use Perl. That does
everything Awk does, just as concisely, and plenty more besides.

Awk is a mandatory POSIX tool (and so available on all POSIX-compliant Unix-y systems) with a tiny but powerful language focused on just text processing, perl is none of that. Also no-one creates cartoons like https://www.zoitz.com/comics/perl_small.png about awk, nor do they refer to it as a write-only language, because that is not a common feeling about the legibility of awk scripts.
Ed.