On 06/27/2014 12:01 AM, G. Matthew Rice wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> I'd vote to include awk, but not perl. For the simple reason that every
>> question I can think of for perl tests perl's syntax; and this is a
>> sysadmin rating exam, not a programmer exam.
>
> Although, Perl used to be in the purview of the sysadmin...Now, it's
> Python or Ruby, right?
>
> Awk is a huge can of worms, though. It _is_ a programming language.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
My only use of awk is for something like:
awk '{print $N}'
just because it short. If I need complex parsing that I cannot do with
sed/grep/cut/tr I usually write a program (using my favorite scripting
language, that's not perl nor awk...).
But this far exceed a junior sysadmin knowledge.
Simone
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