awk assistance

[Price, Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bscott at ntisys.com [mailto:bscott at ntisys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:29 PM
> To: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: awk assistance 
> 
> Another is if one is writing a shell script that 
> must work even if
> Perl is not installed (seems like a strange idea, yes, but 
> believe it or
> not, Perl is not part of the kernel (neither is Emacs)).

I have found this to be the case on this Solaris box that I sometimes
work with here at work.  I guess it's good in a sense, because
I probably should have learned how to use vi before, but I'm really
an emacs fan.

(Actually, vi and bash aren't part of the kernel either, are they?
IIUC, they're both external utilities, one being an editor and the
other a shell... but I shouldn't complain too much, since at least 
I don't have to use "/bin/sh" and "ed"!)


Erik