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Sorry, I have removed the list of awk replacements for other languages from that comment because I thought it wasn't the right place for it in the thread. I'll

• cb321 3y ago
  No problem. It might also bear mentioning that if one is willing to learn more specialized tools, even less key-downing is possible, such as (using https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/cols.md https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/cols.md): grep ^[A-Za-z]|cols 2 You just lose that row number in the original input coordinates feature of Ben's example which could probably be recovered with `grep -n` & `cols -d' :'`, etc., etc. In exchange, you can say `cols 2:5` to get a block of columns trivially. And then, of course, once you have any oft-repeated atom you can save it in a tiny script/etc. A lot of these choices come down to atom discovery & how willing/facile someone is juggling/remembering syntax/sub-languages. In my experience, willingness tracks facility and both are highly variable distributions over the human population.