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Cerulean · Apr 7th, 2005, 2:32 PM

sed or awk? They're both mainly used alongside some form of shell (BASH/CSH/ZSH) on the command line. A dieing portion of people write whole scripts in them.
The only thing I use sed for these days is quick replacing of characters on the command line or simple regexps:

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echo 'Hello there my friend!' | sed 's/my/old/g'

The output of that is "Hello there old friend!". You get the idea.
AWK I have around 5 seconds worth of experience with so i'm not going to discuss

Apr 7th, 2005, 2:32 PM	#2
Cerulean Professional Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London, England Posts: 459 Rep Power: 4	sed or awk? They're both mainly used alongside some form of shell (BASH/CSH/ZSH) on the command line. A dieing portion of people write whole scripts in them. The only thing I use sed for these days is quick replacing of characters on the command line or simple regexps: (Toggle Plain Text) echo 'Hello there my friend!' \| sed 's/my/old/g' echo 'Hello there my friend!' \| sed 's/my/old/g' The output of that is "Hello there old friend!". You get the idea. AWK I have around 5 seconds worth of experience with so i'm not going to discuss