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grep, awk, sed, cut, sort, uniq and join are the Swiss Army knife of working with tabulated data on the command line.

• nojito 6y ago
  And yet they are absolutely useless if columns get swapped silently.
  • enriquto 6y ago
    Everything breaks down if columns are swapped silently (or database records are renamed silently). What do you mean?
    • nojito 6y ago
      Not with Powershell.
• JdeBP 6y ago
  No, they are the opposites of an all-in-one tool. For a Swiss Army Knife, look at the likes of Miller. * https://johnkerl.org/miller/ https://johnkerl.org/miller/
• anthk 6y ago
  You forgot paste.