On 08/02/2012 04:34 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote:
I think cut is exactly the kind of job that awk (or sed) can be good
for. It seems crazy not to use an existing tool that implements all
the functionality, that can be nicely bundled in a a script.
To be honest, I feel the same way about head(1) -- why bother
maintaining C when the tool is obviously a subset of another tool?
This is what happens.
http://perllinux.sourceforge.net/
"A Linux distribution where ALL programs are written in perl."