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by MPSimmons 11 days ago
Unless you're executing these commands in a loop over a large number of items, or the item itself is gargantuan, it's almost always harmless.

Personally, when I'm exploring, I build a command line iteratively. Cat the file to see the content, pipe to grep to get the lines I want, sed/awk/cut/etc to finagle from there.