• smeg@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Genuine question: why not use grep, awk, sed, or any of the other gnu tools that can already do that?

    • colournoun@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      You could, but maybe a good shell makes it easier than the external tool. Or maybe you use the shell to effectively combine the inputs and outputs of the other tools.

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        1 year ago

        I guess that’s convenient if you’re only ever on one machine, I prefer commands that work (almost) everywhere!

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      1 year ago

      That’s what I meant, using your shell to run command line tools to solve your issue at hand. And having a powerful shell with e.g. context dependend autocomplete (and a lot more) helps to speed up that task.