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  • From: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: sm-sorcery <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] sorcery 1.4.0 and awk apparition
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:34:17 -0500

Awk and sed have different uses. Although it is possible to replace all
sed with awk, the inverse is not possible. Sed is used for simple search
and replace on streams, while awk is used more for parsing.

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 16:34, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure you could replace awk with sed, is it already planned
> > to get rid of awk for another already used program ?
> I personally have little experience with awk, but I do know that sed has
> the trouble that it uses linebreaks as seperators.
> This means that writing something that e.g. removes all linebreaks after
> a backslash is impossible with sed.
> So Far,
> Karsten Behrmann
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