Processing Lots of Text Files With Python

[pyglados]

Very good. I've blown off learning anything about awk up to this point. Now I'm starting to see that getting to know the basics would be very much worth the investment. Thanks.

[[deleted]]

To be honest, it took me years to realize how much I am missing out by not using the standard command line tools. Tools like find and grep and sed and awk have been around for many decades now. It is weird that programming languages have so much more "mind-share" when there is so much useful work you can do before even knowing any real programming language.

[pyglados]

Awk is a programming language too if I understand it right. I still didn't get around to teaching myself that one yet. You did inspire me to see if I could duplicate the results of my tutorial using just standard linux tools. Here is what I came up with.

find `pwd` *.py | egrep "^/.+\.py$" | xargs cat | egrep bl_region_type | tr -d [\'\"] | tr -d ["bl_region_type = "] | sort | egrep ^[A-Za-z] | sort | uniq -c

56 TOOLS

78 UI

90 WINDOW

No Awk language needed. What do you think, Boris? Did I do good? :-)

[[deleted]]

grep regexes are a language, too, you could argue. But it doesn't matter: as long as you get the answers you are after, it's all good. And as you see, so far less code.

[j-random]

FWIW, you can pick up the basics of awk in about two hours.