Ingo Wichmann wrote: > Awk is a processing language. Simply asking for the top 10 awk onliners > is not an option. To give it the respect it deserves, we'd have to cover > it's syntax, data-types and functions. For how much weight?
I agree with Ingo that awk probably shouldn't be on the LPIC-1 exam, although not because it isn't useful or important, but simply because we don't have the space to do it adequate justice. Although if it was up to me, I'd scrap the weight-3 basic vi objective and replace it with a weight-3 basic awk objective in a heartbeat ;^) Incidentally, the tuxcademy “Advanced Linux” training manual (i.e., the non- sysadmin content of LPI-102) has covered basic awk usage since essentially forever, although awk isn't part of the LPIC-1 objectives. This is simply because awk is a useful tool to know for an advanced Linux user or sysadmin – it can in fact do things that are otherwise hard, inelegant, or impossible to do with the shell and other more basic utilities. In particular, the bar to understanding awk, for simple use cases, is a lot lower than for Perl, Python, or (heaven forbid!) Ruby. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · [email protected] · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
