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AWK

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dl
sceptreofjudah
rrainey
BitWise
dabeaz
bmaxwell
whosaysni
ashugg
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jamesotron
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twhitton
xurizaemon
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theanalyst
dl - 36 years
sceptreofjudah - 35 years
rrainey - 30 years
BitWise - 8 years
dabeaz - 7 years
bmaxwell - 25 years
whosaysni - 24 years
ashugg - 23 years
MarkofCain - 23 years
jamesotron - 22 years
gklein - 21 years
bkmontgomery - 20 years
twhitton - 18 years
xurizaemon - 17 years
shiny - 5 years
floyd - 14 years
adamcik - 13 years
cstejerean - 12 years
sanchom - 12 years
smalltobi - 11 years
quakehead - 3 years
xhae - 10 years
whaley - 10 years
greyfade - 10 years
Sitwonade - 9 years
bocke - 9 years
andyrak - 9 years
Sitwon - 9 years
chris - 7 years
theanalyst - 6 years
dl
1982–
why use haskell to explore cs concepts when you can use one-liners?http://en.literateprograms.org/Factorial_(AWK) or even recreate the state of 1950's AI? http://en.literateprograms.org/Mind_reading_machine_(AWK)
sceptreofjudah
1983–
I tinkered with awk on a xenix PC and then used it some in the mid to late 80's for autonomous vehicle control language processing, mainly for quick prototyping before implementing Lex and Yacc. Later, I used it for language filtering systems in the same way in the 1990's. Then I discovered PERL (and PHP).
rrainey
1988–
BitWise
1988–1995
Its amazing what this language can be made to do.
dabeaz
1990–1996
Used awk quite a bit for short data processing tasks--however, all of my programs were really minimal at best.
bmaxwell
1993–
whosaysni
1994–
ashugg
1995–
MarkofCain
1995–
jamesotron
1996–
I first learned about Awk in Dave Taylor's 'Teach Yourself Unix in a week'. Once I knew about her, I had to have her.
gklein
1997–
bkmontgomery
1998–
This is one of those great tools that I just don't use nearly enough.
twhitton
2000–
I have a small handful of one-liners that I couldn't live without.
xurizaemon
2001–
Our relationship is made of many brief and satisfying encounters, with no demands either side.
shiny
2002–2006
dunno why i ever used awk when i knew perl
floyd
2004–
adamcik
2005–
Great part of the UNIX toolbox
sanchom
2006–
I have to check the man page every time I go back to use this, but it's really well written. So useful. Should go in the hall-of-fame, the man page.
cstejerean
2006–
smalltobi
2007–
Used in a couple of bash scripts
quakehead
2007–2009
Kept seeing it used a lot by Linux users.
greyfade
2008–
Didn't properly learn to use AWK until very recently. It's like Perl-lite.
whaley
2008–
When parsing text by piping to 18 different utilities was cumbersome, I turned to awk. Useful to me also as a poor man's `cut`.
xhae
2008–
I suck at awk.
Sitwon
2009–
Took a formal UNIX/Linux class (after having used Linux for almost a decade). This was the only new thing I learned.
andyrak
2009–
Sitwonade
2009–
Took a formal UNIX/Linux class (after having used Linux for almost a decade). This was the only new thing I learned.
bocke
2009–
chris
2011–
theanalyst
2012–
wilane
Love it, my second son have it in his firstname
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