I find it mostly useful precisely for SO questions - where I know the answer exists, but I don’t want to try to find it via Google. The other subject I give it

I find it mostly useful precisely for SO questions - where I know the answer exists, but I don’t want to try to find it via Google. The other subject I give it high praise is shell one-liners. It can produce some hideously abstruse chains that, by and large, do precisely what I asked. It’s not as good with awk, I’ve noticed, but maybe that’s because awk is much more akin to an actual general purpose programming language than, say, sed.