• Victor@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    My experience exactly. I’d rather use a specific tool designed for the task than invoke a whole new language. It just feels… icky for some reason.

    • stewie410@programming.dev
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      16 hours ago

      There are times when dealing with annoying field separators that awk is a more convenient tool – though, I’m also now at the stage that I want to do as much with bash-builtins as I possibly can.