What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (literature.cafe)

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[-] nik9000@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

I used to switch to perl or python if I needed awk. These days I don't tend to run into it as much. Not sure if that was a good choice. But it's how I spent the past 25 years.

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