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jstimpfle
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Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples
The advantage of awk is that it is faster in some cases and a little more convenient for simple command-lines due to automatic field splitting. The disadvantage is that it swallows errors silently even more than perl (I think).
augustk
on Oct 25, 2017
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Awk is also a part of POSIX.
tmaly
on Oct 25, 2017
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yes I agree, I have seen awk perform faster in some cases, but for the general case, I prefer something a little more flexible like Perl
Annatar
on Oct 25, 2017
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I'd say that AWK's single weakness is a lack of built-in debugger or even `set -x` tracing mode like the shell has.
mathiasrw
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If you have access to npm in your environment then try rexreplace next time.
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