Master Wq and the Windows developer

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.