I picked up the same habit years ago in my first job because we worked with a mix of all the UNIXes (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, etc). Always "perl -pe" instead of "sed

I picked up the same habit years ago in my first job because we worked with a mix of all the UNIXes (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, etc). Always "perl -pe" instead of "sed" and man oh man you're right perl is amazing for that, its original task The trend then was towards standardization towards linux, but then that got compromised as that's when macbooks got popular with developers.