On: Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained"

[lanstein]

I had the same question the other day, and it turned into a spontaneous all-company "why you should use awk" lesson. If this kind of thing sounds cool to you, drop me a resume at david at loggly.com. We're at 1st and Mission in SF.

Short answer, it's a baby programming language that's more powerful than sed, quicker to write than python, and less confusing than cut.

[veyron → lanstein]

I resent the use of the word "baby" -- I have seen entire quantitative trading platforms built in awk

[prakashk → veyron]

Perhaps the ETrade baby uses that program? (ducks)