I found Perl a practical replacement on the command line (not as the command line) to command line sed and awk, to the point I never learned sed and awk. Thanks

I found Perl a practical replacement on the command line (not as the command line) to command line sed and awk, to the point I never learned sed and awk. Thanks to the -p and -e options (perl -pe 's/foo/bar/'). It never felt like a practical replacement to find. It would probably work as a grep replacement, but my fingers already knew grep. Today? Don't know. Back in the day though, in your standard heterogeneous environment it was the most practical way of working since your awk and sed seemed to be platform dependent in many ways (awk, gawk, nawk, proprietary extensions etc.)