Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is better: awk gawk nawk I think it depends on what platform you are running. The best solution would be to use 'awk' and stick to the least common denominator in the command set, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is better: awk gawk nawk I think it depends on what platform you are running. The best solution would be to use 'awk' and stick to the least common denominator in the command set, That's what I do: awk -F';' '{print $1=$2}'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-05 Thread David Megginson
Tony Peden writes: I don't know, maybe it's just me but I've written a lot of perl I couldn't read a month later ... You just haven't rewired your brain chemistry yet. After about 12 years, perl code starts to look normal and everything else (C/C++, the sky, your family) looks strange.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-05 Thread Tony Peden
--- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Peden writes: I don't know, maybe it's just me but I've written a lot of perl I couldn't read a month later ... You just haven't rewired your brain chemistry yet. After about 12 years, perl code starts to look normal and everything

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-05 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Tony Peden writes: I don't know, maybe it's just me but I've written a lot of perl I couldn't read a month later ... You just haven't rewired your brain chemistry yet. After about 12 years, perl code starts to look normal and everything else (C/C++, the sky, your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-05 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tony Peden writes: I don't know, maybe it's just me but I've written a lot of perl I couldn't read a month later ... You just haven't rewired your brain chemistry yet. After about 12 years, perl code starts to look normal and everything else

[Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
Which is better: awk gawk nawk ?? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk Those are for the old geezers :-) and the occasional quick command line hack (like extracting a particular set of fields from each line of an input stream.) I'd recommend learning perl or python or both as replacements. :-) Curt. --

re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread David Megginson
Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk perl All the best, David ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:31:11 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk perl David I'm going to take a wild guess here: I'll bet you and Curt didn't do to well in multiple choice tests in school? ;-) Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Tony Peden
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:17, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk Those are for the old geezers :-) and the occasional quick command line hack (like extracting a particular set of fields from each line of an input stream.) I'd recommend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tony Peden writes: On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:17, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk Those are for the old geezers :-) and the occasional quick command line hack (like extracting a particular set of fields from each line of an input

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which is better: awk gawk nawk ?? Well I'm going to throw in the old it depends on what you are doing. Since I've been around longer than perl, I still use awk for a lot of one line stuff. For example it often works better than xargs (piped out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 04 September 2003 23:39, Jon S Berndt wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:31:11 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk perl David I'm going to take a wild guess here: I'll bet you and Curt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Lee Elliott writes: On Thursday 04 September 2003 23:39, Jon S Berndt wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:31:11 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk perl David I'm going to take a wild

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Tony Peden
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 17:06, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Tony Peden writes: On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:17, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: Which is better: awk gawk nawk Those are for the old geezers :-) and the occasional quick command line hack (like