Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by southwindcg on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:54PM (#45672747)

Regarding the `line` script, just a note that sed can print an arbitrary line from a file, no need to invoke a pipeline of cat, head, and tail:

    sed -n 2p file

prints the second line of file. The advantage sed has over this line script is it can also print more than one line, should you need to:

    sed -n 2,4p file

prints lines 2 through 4, inclusive.

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by tonmoy on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:32PM (#45673268)

It is often useful to chain multiple sed commands and sometimes shuffle them around. In those cases I would need to keep changing the fist sed. Sometimes I need to grep before I sed. Using cat, tail and head makes things more modular in the long run I feel. It’s the ethos of each command doing one small thing

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by 1-more on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:38PM (#45674119)

yeah I almost always start with `cat` but I still pipe it into `sed -n 1,4p`

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by southwindcg on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:36PM (#45673321)

True, everything depends on what one is trying to do at the time.

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by mmsc on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:49AM (#45681801)

If you'd like to print the middle of a file, try out `body`: https://github.com/megamansec/body

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