Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > echo one two three four five six seven | awk '{print$2,$NF}'
> > two seven
>
> That one always drives me nuts. Why fork/exec for such a heavy process
> for something bash can do itself:
In the end the real answer is that to me it's simpler, less typing,
solves the problem but mostly because *I like awk*. :-)
BTW... Awk is used so much on a system that most likely it is already
in ram and is probably not as heavy of a system impact as you imply.
> Probably a dozen other ways to do it too.
Yes.
Bob
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