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grep
: Searches for a specific pattern in files or input stream. Commonly used for text filtering. -
cat
: Concatenates and displays file contents. Often used for reading or combining files. -
sed
: Stream editor for filtering and transforming text. Useful for find and replace operations.
Awk!
Curl!
rm -rf /*
!Don’t forget
-no-preserve-root
!I used
awk
so much before learning to split strings in native bash to save that extra .001ms.Ha, that was my main reason for using awk, performance and run time. I had to do things like replace semi-colons with commas in 1 terrabyte text files.