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Cc: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl
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Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Thursday, August 21, 2008 a las 05:54:29AM -0700, Joseph Olatt escribió:
> 
>> Try the following:
>>
>>
>>  cat t.txt | awk -F\t '{split($1, arr, "."); printf("%s_%s@%s\n", arr[
>> 1], arr[2], $2);}'
>>
>> where t.txt:
>> john.doe    example.com
> 
> Despite of the magic awk(1) or while-loops: this is all UUOC Award;
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat

Yeah, yeah :)

I know that:

# grep username /var/log/radius.log

...is much, much better than:

# cat /var/log/radius.log | grep username

...but that is just semantics, relative to the intent and purpose of 
this excercise.

Besides, our mail servers don't do enough work, so using cat in the 
wrong context when modifying tens of thousands of lines in a file is 
good exercise for my boxes ;)

Steve