sed/awk, instead of Perl

[Walt Pawley]

At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote:

>- read email addresses from a file in the format:
>
>user.name TAB domain.tld
>
>- convert it to:
>
>user_name at example.com
>
>- write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT

I'm curious why Perl isn't a decent choice. I think I'd do something like

perl -pe 's/(.*?)\.(.*)\t.*/$1_$2 at example.com/' input_file > output_file

Of course one could choose to actually run the output to the
input with appropriate Perl options but I don't normally do
that.
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