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Re:Not Your Grandfather’s Perl by anthk on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:57PM (#32768304)
Perl is the Unix utilities' replacement for Windows. It can do awk/sed in one place.

What I miss it's a "strings(1)" replacement for Perl.

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Re:Not Your Grandfather’s Perl by kal247 on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:49PM (#32784736)
There's a "strings" implementation in the PerlPowerTools : https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools
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Re:Not Your Grandfather’s Perl by anthk on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:05PM (#32792464)
TIL. Good addon for w32 perl users.
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