[Cialug] Text Processing Choices

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

sed, awk, grep, sort, cut, comm, perl. Not necessarily in that order. I 
use the more traditional tools for simple tasks, and perl for anything 
complicated. I sometimes use perl instead of grep for simple searches 
on large files, since Perl is faster than grep. For searching small 
files the startup time of perl and the extra typing to create a 
syntactically correct 1-line perl program leads me to use grep.

On 2009-06-30 at 08:38:45, Todd Walton wrote:
>What do you guys use to do text processing these days?  Perl doesn't
>seem to be quite the hot item it used to be, but is there anything
>better?

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