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This is very similar to my usage. I'm awful about wiping from my memory every implementation detail unless I work in something every day. awk and sed are great
by menacingly 4y ago
This is very similar to my usage. I'm awful about wiping from my memory every implementation detail unless I work in something every day.
awk and sed are great examples, I find them critically important just infrequently enough I barely have any idea how to use them.
or the once in 2 years I need to do something complex in a spreadsheet, a natural language description of the problem is easier for me to remember than some sequence of vlookup
- Veen 4y agoI had a script with a huge chunk of spaghetti awk and sed I wrote years ago and couldn’t remember how it worked. I pasted it into ChatGPT and asked it to explain it to me and then make some small edits that changed the output. It did a remarkably good job.
- menacingly 4y agoI hadn't even thought of having it explain my own garbage to me, that's great. For my usage patterns of sed and awk, it's not complex, but it's usually that if it comes to me using them, a series of bad and urgent things has occurred and I don't have time to grow a beard and ponder unix zen