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Archive for May 14th, 2003

Stop awk’ing at me

Posted by Jordan on May 14th, 2003

This is normal. Really. Lately I’ve taking to using awk for all my shell programming tasks. Awk is wonderful. Want to only output lines of text where 25 is in the 6th column of text? Sure thing:
awk ‘ ~ /25/’

How about something complicated? You want to take a unix [...]

Shocking test results

Posted by John on May 14th, 2003

I thought the fact that 23% of Florida’s third graders will be held back because they failed the FCAT was bad, and that the state has lowered the pass score for high school students was even worse, but this just blows them all away:
Recent results from the standardized Perl Fluency Test showed that 99.99% of [...]