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by Suppafly 699 days ago
> In many cases I could use sed or awk to replace each other

I always felt that way too. I don't do a ton of command line processing of stuff now, but got pretty proficient with them back in day specifically for a unix class in college. A lot of the seemingly simple command line tools have overlapping feature sets or can be coerced into doing extra stuff.