Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
by devenvdev on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:46PM
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I would argue that in practice, the only difference between implementations was an inconvenience to me was on Mac - I have to use gsed instead of sed, etc. Everywhere else, it's pretty much consistent from the one-liner user POV. On the other hand, I occasionally encounter different python versions, which always includes some mental effort to tune in.
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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
by microtherion on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:19PM
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What kind of ecosystem are you operating in outside of macOS? If you're operating in a Linux monoculture, I'm sure your experience is quite realistic, but historically, there were several different sed's (of which the fact that macOS uses BSD sed by default is a reminder), several awks, several bourne-like shells (some of which still exist, optimized for either better interactivity or smaller footprint).