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by magnetic 3025 days ago
What are the alternatives?
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I've seen folks use awk for some of those tasks, and another four letter programming language that i won't name.
I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. [0]

It' all magic! [1]

[0]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!msg/comp.lang.perl... [1]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!msg/comp.lang.perl...

I'm going to release the safety on my browning.
Ruby isn't that bad.
Ruby is great, and is not what I was thinking of. But I should have included it as well as AWK.