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by DishyDev 1246 days ago
I always enjoy seeing what a good awk & sed user can achieve in bash.

However one of the not so good Devs I worked with used awk to load a large, deeply hierarchical JSON file. They refused to use a library to parse JSON. It was a many hundreds of line monstrosity.

Luckily when they left we were able to parse it in JQ instead .