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This submission seems weirdly relevant. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19271135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19271135

• sizzzzlerz 8y ago
  I was going to comment on exactly this article except that I couldn't find it quickly. It isn't weirdly relevant; it's totally relevant. It demonstrates that, with sufficient knowledge of the command line, one can write the most amazing tools, quickly and succinctly. Here, knowledge doesn't necessarily meaning knowing everything immediately but also knowing what resources to reference to find out stuff. I've been programming for 40 years and using unix/linux since the 80's and in this little one-line script, I discovered two things that one can do with the appropriate arguments that I've never known. YMMV.