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| From | Ralf Damaschke <rwspam@gmx.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.shell |
| Subject | Re: a sed question |
| Date | 2024-12-22 00:43 +0000 |
| Organization | C.H.A.O.S. |
| Message-ID | <lsp5lsFsql5U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <87wmfv27yy.fsf@example.com> <lsjtj8F2r8aU1@mid.individual.net> <vk3orv$1ut71$1@news.xmission.com> <lsmfo5Ffor3U1@mid.individual.net> <20241220184059.820@kylheku.com> |
Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 2024-12-21, Ralf Damaschke <rwspam@gmx.de> wrote: >> Simply because you cannot imagine how to use it? No! > > He explained the "because", in the immediately following text that you > snipped: I don't agree with his explanation. > KMC> Seriously, the above looks like gobbledegook compared to the > equivalent in > KMC> AWK (or some other normal scripting langugae). "sed" looks like > Intercal > KMC> (once you get beyond s/foo/bar/g). For many people C looks like gobbledegook, too. > KMC> I'm sure that whatever it is that OP is trying to do, it could be > easily > KMC> translated to (say) AWK and look much nicer. That's probably true. I often prefer awk too, but that is not sufficient to state "don't use sed for anything beyond the s/foo/bar/g stage". There have been quite some tasks where I used sed.
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