Re: [SLUG] Script needed

[CaT <cat@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:26:22PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> > perl -F: -anle 'print $F[0]' </etc/passwd
> >
> > > perl -e 'print grep { s/^(\w+)\:.*$/$1/; 1; } <>' < inputfile >
> outputfile
> > >
> 
> True, but that is a way of applying any arbitrary regex...
> Comes in very handy for doing lots of other things too.
> 
> More complicated, but more powerfull.

It's not more powerful when it's not the best way of doing a job.

KISS and don't bloat. :)

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