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pkrumins on Dec 13, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II

Yep, some of them can be done much better with sed and tr.

The goal of this article, however, was not to illustrate the best practices but to document all Awk one-liners in awk1line.txt file.

yters on Dec 14, 2008 [–]

It left me wondering why people think that file is so great.

pkrumins on Dec 14, 2008 | [–]

Because books do not teach writing concise scripts, they would expand on multi-line functions, etc.

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