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by mturmon 1185 days ago
This can be a very powerful idiom (basically, code generation at the shell prompt).

It’s well suited to iterative composition of the commands: I’ll write the query/find part, and (with ctrl P) add the awk manipulations, and then pipe to sh.

If it doesn’t have side effects you can pass through “head” before “sh” to check syntax on a subset.