On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Wed Jun 3 19:41:39 EDT 2009, n...@lsub.org wrote: >> I have a ssam script that does the work. But it's not really streaming. >> >> El 04/06/2009, a las 1:36, jrm8...@gmail.com escribió: >> >> > Speaking of regexes in Plan 9, did the "structural awk" or "stream >> > sam" Rob dreamed of in the SE paper ever get realized? >> > >> > [/mail/box/nemo/msgs/200906/41493] >> > > here's a pointer to the previous discussion of ssam, which > does exist for unix: > > http://9fans.net/archive/2003/10/309
Unfortunately, I can't get it to build. It looks long un(der)maintained. > > "structural awk" is still a tempting idea. but why not > just go wild and implement a shell with sres? One step at a time. Although if I woke up tomorrow and everything from sed to lex and yacc and rc magically had sres, I would be very /very/ happy. You can kind of get something not entirely unlike sres in sed, but it is quite hard and unintuitive.
