> We here still think of awk as fundamentally different from other pipeline facilities such as [...] sed
If you consider awk "not-shell" because it's an entire language, then it's really inconsistent to consider sed "shell". sed is a stream programming language. For example, this is a Sudoku solver written in sed: http://sed.sourceforge.net/local/games/sedoku.sed.html
If you consider awk "not-shell" because it's an entire language, then it's really inconsistent to consider sed "shell". sed is a stream programming language. For example, this is a Sudoku solver written in sed: http://sed.sourceforge.net/local/games/sedoku.sed.html