Read as in, with their eyes? Or how to ingest it into some other app/script? Cos I’m vaguely aware that awk can be used in some way for this, but wouldn’t have a clue how.
awk is practically made for record processing, within the shell you can set $IFS. The reason so many ancient UNIX file formats use : as separator is because that’s the default setting of $IFS.
It’s all a huge PITA, though. I mean there’s a reason why people started using perl instead. Nushell is great for that kind of stuff, even more so if you have random json or such lying around it loads just as easily. “Everything is a string” was a mistake.
I once had a junior calling me in a panic because he didn’t know how to quit nano. NANO!
I mean, maybe it was just me but I had to search what the hell ^ meant in nano, but after that it was alright.
Huh? Isn’t it like right there at the bottom of the screen?
I guess not knowing that ^X means Control+X could be the issue, but still…
Do you remember the “press any key to exit”? Someone asked where is the “any” key.
Nano… Like… The one that has all the keybinds permanently shown at the bottom of the screen?
Onscreen instructions unclear, pressed Shift+6+X. Still stuck in Nano.
Burnt into the old LCD screen.
And your retinas.
Yeah, that one…
Nano nano!
drinks water with finger
Ork humor. Love it.
That deserves a “do you know how to read?”, because the exit command is on the lower part of the screen for nano
I had an intermediate not understand how to read a pipe-delimited text file.
Read as in, with their eyes? Or how to ingest it into some other app/script? Cos I’m vaguely aware that awk can be used in some way for this, but wouldn’t have a clue how.
awk is practically made for record processing, within the shell you can set
$IFS. The reason so many ancient UNIX file formats use:as separator is because that’s the default setting of$IFS.It’s all a huge PITA, though. I mean there’s a reason why people started using perl instead. Nushell is great for that kind of stuff, even more so if you have random json or such lying around it loads just as easily. “Everything is a string” was a mistake.
The former.