bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year agoI feel like you can’t compare these tools without talking about
cut
. I personally never useawk
, butcut
and other coreutils can be used together to achieve much of the same narshee ( @narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 3•1 year agocat
while read -r l; do echo "$l"; done <
cat -e
while read -r l; do echo "$l"$; done <
cat -n
n=0; while read -r l; do n="$((n+1))"; printf '%5d %s\n' "$n" "$l"; done <
cat -b
n=0; while read -r l; do [ -n "$l" ] && n="$((n+1))" && printf '%5d %s' "$n" "$l"; echo; done <
fox ( @fox@vlemmy.net ) English3•1 year agolove
cat -n
, when working with csv files I often use a command like this to figure out which column I need:head -n1 file.csv | sed 's/,/\n/g' | cat -n
Sweet
BarrierWithAshes ( @BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agofor me it’s grep but i’m amazed how many searching tools there are on Linux. sed, grep, ripgrep, cat, find, walk, sor, locate, awk, etc.
falsem ( @falsem@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agoI pretty much always use these commands unless I need regex or something. I think it’s a lot more maintainable by other people since awk and sed have their own unique syntax.