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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:14PM (#12314396)
Hey, don't forget cut and xargs!
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by grkvlt on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:23PM (#12315596)
And paste for tasks requiring the opposite of cut, then there's tr, the lightweight sed. And jq for structured queries on JSON. But, all these are built in to poweshell, essentially.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:40AM (#12320812)
No they're not. PS can't process text all that well...
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by daveloyall on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:18PM (#12314438) 

    *gulp* I've heard people say that, but I haven't delved into them!!  :-S
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:40PM (#12314668)
cut doesn't match awk, but it's handy for the little stuff. And xargs is the most usefull thing ever.
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