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@jschauma that's why you should invest time into learning perl. It's available everywhere.

(I'm actually not sure if that's sarcasm or not. #nixos depends on perl so I guess I always have it at hand. I even wrote a perl oneliner this month).

@farcaller @jschauma your computer should have perl installed in the same way that it should have awk: in case someone else was mad enough to use it to build a tool you want, not to actually use yourself.

@petealexharris @jschauma wait, awk is illegal too, now? What's the modern solution to printing the 3rd column of whatever the output is?

@ives @petealexharris @jschauma cut kinda sucks at the job when it's space-padded. Or if I can't visually tell if that's a space or a tab. Awk works all the time every time.

@farcaller @ives @jschauma
I do quite like awk, but I always have Python handy anyway, so unless something is super trivial, it'll be quicker for me to pop up a Python shell than re-read the awk man page.

@hornlo the lengths people would go for only not to use awk!