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i’m going to respectfully disagree. each tool you listed (with the exception of awk) does one thing and does it extremely well. my goal is not to use a langua

i’m going to respectfully disagree. each tool you listed (with the exception of awk) does one thing and does it extremely well. my goal is not to use a language to solve all possible variations on problems i have. my goal is to solve the problem. another interesting side effect is that a lot of times this is super compact and good enough. when it’s not you can go to a programming language

MisterOctober 8y ago
^ agree -- I've seen lots of folks [newer users mostly] turn to grep when really what they wanted was sed. It's just a matter of learning which screwdriver is for which type of screw
faho 8y ago
Isn't sed's "one thing" a superset of grep's?
- mirceal 8y ago
  grep is for searching for stuff sed is for editing streams
  - IshKebab 8y ago
    Pretty sure you can search for stuff with sed.