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by stubish 1084 days ago
Back in the 90s I got my first 'real' job, and needed to learn well grep, awk, sed, col et. al. Or learn Perl. Perl kept us afloat until we had too much Perl and needed to switch to Python. And I still don't know awk or sed; to this day my fingers just go with 'perl -pie'.