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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: analysis of java application logs
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In message <irggkc$k9d$2@localhost.localdomain>, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> Besides, I very often find I need to calculate maxima, minima, averages,
> etc as part of the log analysis and find that very easy to do with awk.

perl can do everything awk can do, and more, and do it just as concisely.