[nycbug-talk] two quick things

[Eitan Adler]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Jan Schaumann <jschauma at netmeister.org> wrote:
> Matthew Story <matt at tablethotels.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Or just not use grep at all.
>>
>> indeed ... for the uninitiated: http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#grep
>
> On that occasion, I shall pimp my own "Useless Use of *" presentation I
> gave at SCALE back in 07:
> http://netmeister.org/misc/useless_use.pdf

You have a useless use of awk here.

awk '{print $2}'  < file
should be
cut -d ' ' -f 2 file

Generally it looks like a good presentation though. Wish I was there.

-- 
Eitan Adler