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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: a sed question
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:28:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:06:39 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:26:15 -0600, Ed Morton wrote:
>>>
>>> Awk is a mandatory POSIX tool (and so available on all POSIX-compliant
>>> Unix-y systems) with a tiny but powerful language focused on just text
>>> processing, perl is none of that.
>>
>> Perl is all of that, and more. Text processing is very much the raison
>> d’être for Perl. Because it turns out it can get quite complicated.
> 
> It's not "all of that".  Perl is not a mandatory POSIX tool.

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