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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (literature.cafe)
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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

My experience exactly. I'd rather use a specific tool designed for the task than invoke a whole new language. It just feels... icky for some reason.

[-] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

There are times when dealing with annoying field separators that awk is a more convenient tool -- though, I'm also now at the stage that I want to do as much with bash-builtins as I possibly can.

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