That I did not know - thank you. We here still think of
awk as fundamentally different from other pipeline facilities such as
tr, sed, sort, uniq, and so on, but I can see why it could, perhaps should, be though of as being "shell".
I guess I was triggered by the fact that the proposed shell solution is:
* not on a command line (although it could be),
* is significantly longer than the original command line solution, and
* gives a different result.
But you're right, it's shell. I might, however, given my background, and remembering as I do its first introduction, always have trouble thinking of it as such.
I guess I was triggered by the fact that the proposed shell solution is:
* not on a command line (although it could be),
* is significantly longer than the original command line solution, and
* gives a different result.
But you're right, it's shell. I might, however, given my background, and remembering as I do its first introduction, always have trouble thinking of it as such.