Re: use of awk instead of complex multielement commands (was Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game))

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Not that that is always important. But I just commented today
> because so often 'awk' is ignored as if its only capability is 'print $1'
>  when in fact it is actually very powerful but neglected.

FWIW, `sed` can also do that job.  Tho the subtraction part would take
a lot more work (`sed` doesn't know how to subtract, so you'd have to
write a chunk of `sed` code which implements subtraction by hand.
A fun exercise for the masochists out there who like to write code for
Turing machines).


        Stefan