Re: REGEXP in perl questiion

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:42:10AM -0800, twistedhammer@example.com wrote:
> Do you *need* to use perl? awk can handle this without the fuss..
> 'BEGIN{ FS=" ";} { print "The program called by cron was ", $4; }'

"Without the fuss" translates to

basename `head -1 /var/spool/mail/cronthing | awk 'BEGIN{ FS=" ";} { print $4; }'`

As opposed to

perl -M File::Basename -nae 'print basename($F[3]); last' <
/var/spool/mail/cronthing

I would suggest you need to use Perl. And who needs a regular expression?

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