I gave up on them except for the very most common uses of them for slicing/dicing text, after the most essential basics I just turn to python and suck it up. Le

I gave up on them except for the very most common uses of them for slicing/dicing text, after the most essential basics I just turn to python and suck it up. Learning to pipe things in/out in python is a great skill to have in these circumstances. I think perl is the king of this but I'm not going back to that... never again :)