>Awk and sed are more of the UNIX magic that I have always thought was really cool, though I never really understood what they were used for. I was so put off

>Awk and sed are more of the UNIX magic that I have always thought was really cool, though I never really understood what they were used for. I was so put off by their syntax that I didn't even bother to try to learn them when I was a newbie. If I had a time machine, I would certainly go back and tell myself to learn these tools and save plenty of time instead of always using vim/perl for every text processing problem. I've now written my own books (https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks) - might help you. For `bash`, I'd highly recommend these resources: * https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide, https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ, https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls, etc * https://www.shellcheck.net/ https://www.shellcheck.net/ * https://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/index.html https://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/index.html Also, https://linuxjourney.com/ https://linuxjourney.com/ is nice for many topics.