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by 8n4vidtmkvmk 352 days ago
I've been using perl instead of sed because PCRE is just better and it's the same regex that PHP uses which I've been coding in for nearly 20 years. I still don't actually know perl, but apparently Gemini does. It wrote a particularly crazy find and replace for me. Never got around to using or learning awk. Only time I see it come up is when you want to parse some tab delimited output