Re: [gentoo-user] wiki page(kernel/upgrade) command confusion: 'cat' and 'awk'

2022-01-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 02:38:22PM + schrieb russian sky: > > I don’t quite follow. Do you mean the “.*”, so you replace .* with .? > Yes. Based on the explanation of '*' in the gawk manual, it's > used to match zero/one/more times repeating of the preceding character which > in turn doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki page(kernel/upgrade) command confusion: 'cat' and 'awk'

2022-01-14 Thread russian sky
> This, in my opinion, is a case of “useless use of cat”. > `cat somefile | sort` can be replaced by “sort file”. Agree with that, i will attempt to add an replacing adivce to the talking page of the kernel/upgrade wiki page. > I don’t quite follow. Do you mean the “.*”, so you replace .* with

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki page(kernel/upgrade) command confusion: 'cat' and 'awk'

2022-01-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:05:54AM + schrieb russian sky: > the sentence is just as follows: > > diff <(cat .config | sort) <(cat .config.old | sort) | awk '/^>.*(=|Linux)/ { > $1=""; print }' > > without inserting the 'cat' and '*'(the part of awk),It seems like, the > result of the

[gentoo-user] wiki page(kernel/upgrade) command confusion: 'cat' and 'awk'

2022-01-14 Thread russian sky
the sentence is just as follows: diff <(cat .config | sort) <(cat .config.old | sort) | awk '/^>.*(=|Linux)/ { $1=""; print }' without inserting the 'cat' and '*'(the part of awk),It seems like, the result of the command is the same as before. Does the existence of the aboving 'cat' and '*'