awk, sed etc. belong to the museum, now that we have so many tools and libraries that can handle structured data.
The whole early Unix obsession with plain text files was a step in the wrong direction. One grating holdover of that is the /proc filesystem. Instead of a typed, structured api you get the stuff as text to be parsed, file system trees and data embedded in naming conventions.
The whole early Unix obsession with plain text files was a step in the wrong direction. One grating holdover of that is the /proc filesystem. Instead of a typed, structured api you get the stuff as text to be parsed, file system trees and data embedded in naming conventions.