[wellylug] Help in finding a good technical/Linux related bookstore

[Anthony Walters]

On 13/06/07, nic <nic at tymar.com> wrote:
>
> Do you have some specific application where you feel detailed knowledge of
> awk and sed is
> necessary?


The one area which i would use sed or awk would be in the case of a server
install, i take the approach of only installing software that is needed for
the server to operate, so scripting languages would fall into a question
mark category for installation....

At risk of starting a flame war, I'd suggest that the time for needing a lot
> of detailed
> knowledge of things like awk and sed has passed, and that if you need to
> do anything
> remotely complex, then it's almost certainly easier and quicker to do in
> Python. I don't
> know enough to say whether Ruby is good for the scripting area, but if so,
> then that could
> be a contender too.


The other reason that i wanted to learn sed and awk is because i wanted to
get into some serious shell scripting. I was under the impression that for
shell scripting, sed, awk and regular expressions were 'need to knows' for a
shell script writing. But perhaps a basic understanding of sed and awk is
all that is needed, and the use of perl or python would be better for the
more complex processing?

Anthony
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