Often old *nix tools are disparaged here by professional software developers. But not everyone is working in software development professionally, and not everyo

Often old *nix tools are disparaged here by professional software developers. But not everyone is working in software development professionally, and not everyone needs sexy qualifications in other tools. As an ordinary person whose day job is in the humanities, learning awk, sed, Emacs Lisp and other such tools has allowed me to quickly solve tasks that would have taken me ages to do manually. These tools have docs that are very accessible to the ordinary computer user (after all, they were conceived as something that clerical staff could be trained in). I am happy these tools are still around and I think they should be more widely known.