[Tutor] look back comprehensively

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Mon Dec 24 10:14:50 EST 2018


On 12/24/18 2:14 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 24/12/2018 05:25, Asokan Pichai wrote:
> 
>> That said, sometimes text processing at the shell can precede or even
>> replace some of these. Of course that assumes Unix/Linux OS.

> In fact for most log file analysis I still use [ng]awk.
> Its hard to beat the simplicity of regex based event
> handling for slicing text files.

Sure... there's nothing wrong with using "the appropriate tool for the
job" rather than making everything look like a Python problem.  There's
Perl, too... the ultimate log analysis toolkit. If only I could read
what I wrote a week later :)




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