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Re:Avoiding Complexity with Systemd by rep_movsd on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:36AM (#27652395)
If you are using UNIX like environments, you are forced to remember arcane commands - after almost 25 years of using Linux, I still have to open the man page for something as ubiquitous as grep - because there's so many options and you are always finding new use cases.

The best solution is to maintain infinite bash history and stop trying to remember arcane stuff.

Don't even get me started on tools like jq - so convoluted that I use python instead

Re:Avoiding Complexity with Systemd by lanstin on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:32PM (#27653965)
It took like six attempts but I finally like jq. Very handy for one liners or quick bash scripts that read data from AWS cli output. It yeah in general prefer to remember the search terms for the working examples. I Google “Awk add total” at least one a month.