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by kronos29296 3286 days ago
Perl was created to do this stuff. Perl is like duct tape to hold together everything. Most people call it ugly because of that but Perl is the best language for quick dirty one liners that work. Only problem is that if you look at it later you will have problems understanding it.
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Agree. Perl is terrific for quick text processing. You can make surprisingly powerful one-liners.