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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (literature.cafe)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] hallettj@leminal.space 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's the only think I know how to do with awk, and I reach for it a lot! cut is purpose-built for that function, and is supposedly easier to understand; but it doesn't seem to just work like awk does.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think cut is a little bit finicky because two consecutive occurrences of the cell delimiter counts, and gives an empty cell when selecting the index between them.

choose is a bit better at this from what I remember, which is like the modern cut, I believe, of course written in Rust.

Otherwise Nushell excels at this sort of thing, although I don't really use it.

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 2 points 3 days ago

Oh, I hadn't heard about choose!

I have been using Nushell, and you're right, it is great at parsing input. Commands like detect columns and parse are very nice, and have been supplanting awk for me.