awk assistance

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:53:45 EST
"Price, Erik" said:

>I have a file that contains the redirected output of a big "find" 
>command.  I want to learn how to quickly scan this file for unique 
>file names, and while I could write a lengthy Perl one-liner,

Why must it be lengthy?

	find ./ -type f | perl -F'/' -ane  'print "$F[$#F]";'

seems to do the trick just fine.  And if you want to weed out 
duplicates pipe the output through 'uniq' with your choice of swiches.

>I was wondering if it could be done more simply with awk.

I'd say it's about the same difficulty level

>But since I have never used awk, I was hoping someone could show me The Way.

I'd argue that 'awk' is "The Old Way" and has been replaced by Perl 
as "The Way" :)

Awk does have it's occasional uses, but for all intents and purposes, 
has been replaced by perl for 99% of the tasks awk was designed for.

Awk has a lot of limitations which don't exist in perl, like line 
length (1024 characters?), etc.
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Paul
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