[ale] Is awk the right tool for this?

Fletch fletch at phydeaux.org
Tue May 7 13:49:37 EDT 2002


>>>>> "Geoff" == esoteric  <Geoffrey> writes:

    Geoff> James P. Kinney III wrote:
    >> I have no doubt as to _why_ so many people gag when they think
    >> of UNIX.


    Geoff> But, the true question is, does he really right perl like
    Geoff> that, or did he intentionally obsfucate it to impress us?


        That wasn't obfuscated perl, that was command line perl.  You
don't name things `%addresses' and stick in extraneous whitespace when
you're writing for 80 characters.

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