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1. Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2013 22:24:56 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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   • Jon Kulp
   Funny, I use awk much more than sed. Had awk running as an Apache cgi handler, & wrote dynamic web pages in awk. Not that I recommend that as an optimal solution for anything.
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   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2013 23:14:27 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
     @bobjonkman, all I can find is the `like' button..., but this comment makes me pine for a `OMG #WHY' button. ☺
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2013 23:22:48 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     It was a creeping feature creature. The whole thing started off with the need to look for one particular phrase in a collection of log files, with timestamps but no date (date was encoded in the filename). So a Q&D awk script solved that. Then someone wanted to count the number of occurrences of arbitrary phrases in those log files. Then to use that info to calculate system capacit…