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#CommandLine #terminal #Linux #sed #editor
I loooove sed!
@Dan_Ramos @matthew This is the way! Awk is nice too!
Honestly, between awk and sed, I can often do almost everything most people want me to do with a more complicated programming language like Perl, Python, etc. I often just quickly shoot out a sed or awk one-liner to do the same thing they wanted in minutes and they keep wondering how the fuck I did that. Seriously?
@Dan_Ramos @matthew Yes, same here. I don't write long things in either of those languages. I have some magic formulas that I use from time to time, and that's it. But for that use case, they are brilliant!
@Dan_Ramos @matthew True. With commands, sed/awk, and pipes in the terminal, we can compose small programs more or less instantly. It only makes sense to save those in script if the task needs to be repeated.
@h4890 @matthew
Exactly. If I wanted to write a full-on application or have even more flexibility with libraries and stuff.. okay, sure. Most of the time, it's not necessary. I've been able to use ldapsearch to pull things, use sed/awk and then produce things that someone else would have taken time to write a whole python to do. Why? It's often not necessary to write a whole program. heh