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Hey I just get enthusiastic about bash and commandline in general as these tools have saved my hours of work compared to using gui And I love your enthusiasm in the comment and things you just taught me today.

I’m definitely going to take a note of this and add to my TIL Notes so I can always refer back to this

I just wanted to thank you for teaching me something totally new today

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Consider adding zsh and Perl to your toolbelt. Many scripting languages are just as powerful as Perl, but I don't know of anything that has equivalent capability for quick work on the CLI. Check out how the `-pi -E` switches work, for an example: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun#-i%5Bextension%5D

Also, jq is amazing and is basically sed for json data.

jq can be used even for a lot more advanced analytics (e.g. https://gist.github.com/turbo/36e87947a56cfaacec9d0356b3e521...)

Also xidel is a tool everyone should know.

Oh wow that’s really cool I’ll look into xidel

Just out of curiosity are you into DevOps

I guess? I mean it was/is-ish part of my job. I've transitioned to management a while back tho.

Start here http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide and http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

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