On 3/31/13, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2013 9:57 AM, "Charlie Kester" <corky1...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> On 03/30/2013 23:49, Chris Down wrote: >>> >>> GNU coreutils packages awful versions of >>> awk/sed.
GNU awk and GNU sed are too big to be included in coreutils. They're both separate packages. > Sed does many things and many things well, but the unix philosophy is to do > one thing and one thing well. sed does one thing well: apply one or more ed commands non-interactively to a stream of text. awk does one thing well: interpret a programming language specifically designed to process text files, especially those which contain Unix-style tabular data formats. On the other hand, ls is an ugly mess. Robert Ransom
