MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoAn awkward realizationstartrek.websiteimagemessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageAn awkward realizationstartrek.websiteMalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square73linkfedilink
minus-squareTechLich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoI never understood why so many bash scripts pipe grep to awk when regex is one of its main strengths. Like… Why grep ^nvme0n1 | awk '{print $3}' over just awk '/^nvme0n1/ {print $3}'
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoBecause by the time I use awk again, I’ve completely forgotten that it supports this stuff, and the discoverability is horrendous.
I never understood why so many bash scripts pipe grep to awk when regex is one of its main strengths.
Like… Why
grep ^nvme0n1 | awk '{print $3}'
over just
awk '/^nvme0n1/ {print $3}'
Because by the time I use
awk
again, I’ve completely forgotten that it supports this stuff, and the discoverability is horrendous.