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

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[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 2 days 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.