Two thought:<p>1. I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using it. Sometimes for a special need I’ll ask a LLM to write me a script in bash just to keep this spirit alive.<p>2. On the other hand, I’ve written a book and added an index by using Microsoft Word, and it was basically pretty easy to add. I don’t know why I should want to go back to a world of intricate command line tools to do a job that should just be easy enough?
> I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using<p>You can find plenty of examples with a quick github search[0]. The query in the url is<p><pre><code> path:bin dotfiles language:Shell
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A shell script is my first option for any automation. sed is for quick transformations and awk is for more procedural ones.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/search?q=path%3Abin+dotfiles+language%3AShell&type=code&l=Shell" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/search?q=path%3Abin+dotfiles+language%3AS...</a>