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The awk features are rather nice (Score:1)
I find I use -a rather alot for snippets like the following:
It's still useful for alternative delimiters. Pretending dpkg used tabs for delimiters, I'd add the parameter
It also find it's really helpful to got a proper handle on quoting whether in my shell or in perl. Often in a one-liner I'm using qq{} in perl to avoid messing with my shell's own use of ' or ". Occasionally I use bash's $'\t' syntax which lets me say things like
. I often say the ugly but effective:
I use the very, very short one-liner
which just opens up a fresh debugger. I like that "dea" is supposedly the Latin word for goddess. I gather other people like to have other cute words like -debugger. It's all rather arbitrary but works as long as the word starts with the letters 'de'.
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