Great article. Really enjoyed it. Having just gone through a project with significant amounts of high volume text manipulation in PowerShell, it's amazing to me how simple and effective this is. And, ...

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...

Wow. It’s amazing we ever made it out of the 20th century. It’s like reading about farmers who would plow by hand. No kidding - the screams of pain from windows using colleagues when they need to sum ...