awk assistance

[Price, Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Coutu [mailto:coutu at snowy-owl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: Re: awk assistance
> 
> 

 
> The nice thing about this approach is that it uses NO code
> of any sort. If using awk is the 'old' way then this approach
> must be the 'ancient' way since it actually uses the original
> UNIX design thinking of pipes and filters that often gets lost
> nowadays.

Not to contradict you, but I think that it is code.  It's the language 
of the bash shell, and does use a loop construct so I would call it 
code.  (Of course, I majored in communication in college so actually we 
could go further and define what "code" really is, in which case you 
would be unable to access a computer without employing some level of 
"code".... :)


Erik