On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:52:24PM -0300, Iruatc Souza wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:08 AM, patrick keshishian <sids...@boxsoft.com> > wrote: > > my that's awkward. > > > > if you can't combine unix tools, you should be looking at perl. > > iru > >
I bet everyone here knows one can achieve the same results with awk, perl, C, python, ruby, tcl, Haskell, java and goat sacrifices at fullmoon. That doesn't mean any of those is the easiest or most convenient tool for the job. Using a fully-blown programming language just to output a filename and a line matching a regex is plain overkill.