On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Pascal Stumpf <pascal.stu...@cubes.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:52:24PM -0300, Iruatc Souza wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:08 AM, patrick keshishian <sids...@boxsoft.com> 
>> wrote:
>> > my that's awkward.
>> >
>>
>> if you can't combine unix tools, you should be looking at perl.
>>
>> iru
>>
>>
>
> I bet everyone here knows one can achieve the same results with awk,
> perl, C, python, ruby, tcl, Haskell, java and goat sacrifices at
> fullmoon. That doesn't mean any of those is the easiest or most
> convenient tool for the job. Using a fully-blown programming language
> just to output a filename and a line matching a regex is plain overkill.
>

then make the awk line a function or a script

don't add more flags to grep that are hard to guess what they do

-H for "header"? what does it mean?

have you looked at how many flags ls(1) can have? it's a nightmare

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