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Is use of tools like awk, m4, sed etc. common and growing, or decreasing? I've always found that for my personal use cases, writing a little Python snippet has
by lizardactivist 4y ago
Is use of tools like awk, m4, sed etc. common and growing, or decreasing?
I've always found that for my personal use cases, writing a little Python snippet has always been much faster and simpler than understanding what CLI tool to use, and how to use it, to achieve the same thing.
- MrDresden 4y agoDepends on the situation. I've had to work on environments where awk was available by default, but Python was not (and was not going to be). It can be good to have a screwdriver for every type of screw in the toolbox.
- nmz 4y agoI only use awk. sed is unnecessary when you know awk has gsub or sub. Though I would say, I'd really like lua to be in there considering its small size.