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An irritating awk limitation: getting a range of fields

Wandering Thoughts | Oct. 12, 2008, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Writing things in awk has a number of little irritations that come upevery so often. One of them is that it has no built in way to retrievea range of input fields as a string, ie there is no equivalent of whatin Python one could write as something like ' r = " ".join(input[2:]) '(which turns everything from the third field onwards back into a singlestring).

Of course, you can do this with an awk function. But it'

明報轉載

ericayuen | Oct. 11, 2008, 9:37 p.m. | Original

書到用時﹕共產黨真的是那麼可怕嗎？

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What 's wrong with me?

agnesvaria | Oct. 11, 2008, 12:22 p.m. | Original

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Forcing sort ordering in Unix shell scripts

Wandering Thoughts | Oct. 11, 2008, 1:18 a.m. | Original

There are a number of situations in Unix shell scripts where you knowthe order that the lines in your output should be in, but you can'tproduce it in that order and nothing in your normal output is usefulto sort on. One common case is awk scripts that accumulate informationinto arrays and then dump it out in their END blocks with ' for (keyin array) ... '; array keys are, of course, produced in no particularorder.

In this situation, some people go

體重和股市

ericayuen | Oct. 10, 2008, 10:48 p.m. | Original

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Gawande

drkmchow | Oct. 10, 2008, 8:49 p.m. | Original

I have been enjoying a book teaching us to make fun of reading and how to enjoy writing. The author didn't say a lot about writing skills. Rather, it's the trick for staying in our writing chairs that really impresses me.

One of the most pleasant lessons was drawn from the perspective of Atul Gawande, an award-winning doctor-writer. The author quoted Gawande, "To be sure, talent helps… Nonetheless, attending surgeons say that what is most important to them is finding people