Text generally needs to be formatted somehow, after all it does represent data. So how do you format the text? You can use newline-deliminated values, if your d

Text generally needs to be formatted somehow, after all it does represent data. So how do you format the text? You can use newline-deliminated values, if your data is simple enough. This is great for things like iterating over a set of files, as each file is just a path separated by a newline. What about more complicated data though? Maybe you format the text as json? You can still use text-parsing tools like grep with it, but you can also use more specific text processing tools like JQ. "Just text" is actually pretty complicated, a CSV and a JSON file are both "just text". You've got to have some structure somewhere, even if only by convention.