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

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[–] 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.