Introducing features from AWK into egrep is silly.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 01, 2006 07:56 AM
This whole concept is nothing more than the following:
grep NAME filename is exactly the same as awk '{if(/NAME/)print}' filename egrep -o 'REGEX' filename is the exactly same as awk 'BEGIN{RS="REGEX"}{print RT}' filename
where NAME is a string and REGEX is a regular expression.
AWK is much much more powerful than egrep.
Introducing features from AWK into egrep seems stupid when AWK is there.
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Introducing features from AWK into egrep is silly.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 01, 2006 07:56 AMgrep NAME filename is exactly the same as awk '{if(/NAME/)print}' filename
egrep -o 'REGEX' filename is the exactly same as awk 'BEGIN{RS="REGEX"}{print RT}' filename
where NAME is a string and REGEX is a regular expression.
AWK is much much more powerful than egrep.
Introducing features from AWK into egrep seems stupid when AWK is there.
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