I hear this. I spent way too much time this morning battling with sed & awk which is a good way to learn more about/become more comfortable with them. Still haven't figured out the problem as of yet, but that's part
of the fun.

Good examples of "old" tools that are still heavily used. I see them often enough in "modern" build and deployment pipelines that manage our cloud services where I work.

We do tend to remove them in favor of python scripts once things get a bit complicated to make maintenance a bit easier.... bash/sh scripts using sed & awk expressions can grow over time to take on a life all of their own!

... "I'll excise the bunion," Tom said callously.

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If it's given you joy and continues to do so, why worry about the cost in dollars?

There are plenty of ways to spend $$ to make ones self happy, at least this particular vice keeps your brain in good working order.

... Integrity is praised, and starves.

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I was not worried about it. I was just curious. Now that money is not a concern with BBSing it is the time I am curious about. I am sure I spend a lot of time with it. Have a great BBS day.

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Scuz wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

That's another reason I set up the OBV/2 board, I still have a ton of work to do with it, But at least I got this part of it up and running correctly! That took a lot of research and help from Jack Plash and Paulies file archive!

The whole concept of having a mailer exit with specific errorlevels
depending on the baud rate of the caller, or which batch routine to run,
and that driving the batch file branching is genius.



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kirkspragg wrote to Warpslide <=-

We do tend to remove them in favor of python scripts once things get a
bit complicated to make maintenance a bit easier.... bash/sh scripts
using sed & awk expressions can grow over time to take on a life all of their own!

I run a couple of wordpress blogs and a static blog created with a BASH
script. Guess which one strikes my fancy more? :)



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My first computer was a trs 80 coco 2 with 16k ram and cassette tape
storage

Same here! I had it for about a week! Returned it and got a Tandy 1000HX. Went from cassette tape to 3.5" floppy. Man, I thought that was a lot of storage.

-dmxrob


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BY: Warpslide (21:3/110)

I hear this. I spent way too much time this morning battling with sed &
awk which is a good way to learn more about/become more comfortable with them. Still haven't figured out the problem as of yet, but that's part
of the fun.

Exactly. You are learning. You will build upon what you learn from messing with sed/awk.

This is what I tell people who rely on AI to "write" things for them. You aren't learning shit, you are just copy and pasting code that you have no idea what the hell it is doing - how are you learning anything?

-dmxrob


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BY: kirkspragg (21:2/150)

We do tend to remove them in favor of python scripts once things get a
bit complicated to make maintenance a bit easier.... bash/sh scripts
using sed & awk expressions can grow over time to take on a life all of their own!

In the end, they are all code bases to maintain. I come from the school of "if it works, leave it alone". I see all too often devs wanting to recode something that has worked perfectly fine for 20 years in bash to Java or Python and I shut that down quick. There is zero need to reinvent the wheel.

-dmxrob


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I run a couple of wordpress blogs and a static blog created with a BASH script. Guess which one strikes my fancy more? :)

You should check out Cloudflare Pages and Workers if you like that. It would be right up your alley. I have several websites now that have ditched the nonsense, bloated frameworks and went back to static builds thanks to Cloudflare pages.

-dmxrob


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Dmxrob wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

You should check out Cloudflare Pages and Workers if you like that. It would be right up your alley. I have several websites now that have ditched the nonsense, bloated frameworks and went back to static builds thanks to Cloudflare pages.

Will definitely take a look. I set up a landing page in Wordpress and
it's complete overkill - but I was able to make it look like I wanted.
I'd like a simpler solution.



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I recently found my old batch files that I used to run my FidoNet BBS
with. The main file was SVC.BAT written by Gee Wong (and bastardized for
my use by me.) The errorlevel processing was marvelous... so much was
do-able with this stuff. I spent hours playing with this 16k batch file.

Kinda makes me want to set up a DOS box just to play some more... I am
sure my BBS from the late 80s, early 90s is around here on floppies somewhere...
:)

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We do tend to remove them in favor of python scripts once things get bit complicated to make maintenance a bit easier.... bash/sh scripts using sed & awk expressions can grow over time to take on a life all their own!

I run a couple of wordpress blogs and a static blog created with a BASH script. Guess which one strikes my fancy more? :)

Hmm let me think... perl?

... A cat by any other name is still a sneaky little furball.

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