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For me in the current day, perl is too much like "real programming", while I'm fairly comfortable with grep and sed, and to a lesser extent, awk. Piping a bunch of stuff together is just easier to understand and gradually expand. One thing I do in a lot of scripts is read from and write to the clipboard, usually transforming text with sed and co. Stuff like turning YouTube shorts URLs into regular ones, taking just the last directory name from a long file path on my clipboard, making my clipboard lowercase, etc.

I barely get into loops and lists when trying to learn Python before losing interest/focus and not trying again for months. It feels very abstract and like it's not useful for day-to-day stuff without learning and writing a lot. Shell stuff is very short and powerful and feels more grounded in reality. To be clear, I am not using if/else and the like in my shell scripts either. Usually they're just a few lines with little to no logic, but they're immensely useful. I can't imagine learning perl and then using it for all this stuff.