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This is 80% of my usage of awk and sed:
"ugh, I need the 4th column of this print out":
command | awk '{print $4}'
Useful for getting pids out of a
ps
command you applied a bunch ofgrep
s to.”hm, if I change all 'this' to 'that' in the print out, I get what I want":
command | sed "s/this/that/g"
Useful for a lot of things, like "I need to change the urls in this to that" or whatever.
Basically the rest I have to look up.
I say that covers around 99% of the awk/sed I use.
I was gonna write 99%, but then I remember I also need capture groups quite often. That would make 99% I'd say