Master Wq was addressing some Vim novices. After his lecture
on the many virtues of Vim, he asked if there were any
questions. A young man raised his hand.
"Master, by what means might one filter for the second
column of a plaintext table for all rows that contain the
string ‘tcp’?"
Master Wq said nothing, turned to the whiteboard behind him,
and wrote:
:%!awk '/tcp/{print $2}' There was a murmur of approval from
the other students.
"But I develop on Windows … " the student stammered.
Master Wq turned again, erased the command, and wrote:
:v/tcp/d :v/^\s*\S\+\s\+\(\S\+\).*/d :%s//\1/ "What! That is
far too complex for such a simple task!" cried the student.
Master Wq turned again, erased the command, and wrote:
Microsoft Excel At once, the student was enlightened.
