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 epoch timestamp followed by an IP address and two columns of bytes which you’d like summed, and would really like the output to be formatted prettily. Oh, and the data is seperated by commas. Sure thing…
awk -F, 'OFS="t"; print strftime("%c",),,+}'
I mean, really. It’s so ridiculously easy and convienant that I don’t know why everyone isn’t using it for all their text formatting needs.
Maybe because I have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.
Just a thought.
Left by Shannon on May 14th, 2003
Probably. Call it a geek joke. And a really horrible one at that. Believe me, you’re saner for not understanding it.
Left by Jordan on May 14th, 2003
Don’t worry, Shannon, even a lot of geeks (like me) don’t understand it. It’s the computer equivalent of cuniform.
Left by John on May 14th, 2003
Uh, wow. That was foreign language.
Left by Aristotle on May 14th, 2003
Interesting that you’re geeky enough to use awk and un-geeky enough to ignore my half-assed communication that I don’t have an account to access webmail on the rack. Who are you and what did you do with Jordan?
Left by rehmeyer on May 14th, 2003
I thought you would like this john…
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/bo/2003/bo030514.gif
Left by comic on May 15th, 2003