Re:Shell, Awk, and Make Should Be Combined (2016)
by c0balt on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:26PM
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> WHY are awk and sh/bash the "best" thing on nearly all Linux machines, the default choice?
From my experience with of them: They are good enough.
Leapfrogging software with incremental advances only works sometimes and the "standard env" is already very advanced.
I do appreciate the features provided by, e.g., ripgrep over GNU grep but I can likely get the job done without it.
There are ofc some exceptions, like jq for JSON handling, but I have only really seen that used by developers. However I've rarely seen it on legacy/ production machines because it often makes more sense to use Python/ Perl at this stage.
From my experience with of them: They are good enough. Leapfrogging software with incremental advances only works sometimes and the "standard env" is already very advanced.
I do appreciate the features provided by, e.g., ripgrep over GNU grep but I can likely get the job done without it.
There are ofc some exceptions, like jq for JSON handling, but I have only really seen that used by developers. However I've rarely seen it on legacy/ production machines because it often makes more sense to use Python/ Perl at this stage.