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Your point?
Either sed, awk and perl are probably the best tools for the job (which you don't say what it is).
I don't get your rant, sed and awk are core parts of Unix, what answer did you expect? Something exotic like ruby,lua,go? Not even python is guaranteed to be in any Unix/BSD /Linux system. -
Maexmon307y@nbamaral It's not a rant, it's a joke. I'm aware that those tools are unbeatable in many situations, but there might be simpler solutions for the average person than just using those tools for almost every task.
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7Raiden8787y@Maexmon it actually depends on the task! For example for writing from the second line of stdin into a file I use awk. Could I do it with sed? Maybe. Could I do it in another, maybe simpler way? Possibly. Do I care? Certainly not!
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