Post #1908793
2026-05-03 06:21 UTC
Replies (20)
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@Bfordham@infosec.exchange 2026-05-03 06:43
@kamstrup or sed for when you need to edit a stream. Also TIL sed is a couple years older than me
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@datn@xoxo.zone 2026-05-03 06:59
@kamstrup so often I found myself wishing to print my regular expressions globally but lacked a pithy and intuitive command. then came --
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 07:35
@kamstrup Yep! You can't grep dead trees.
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@nschultz@aus.social 2026-05-03 07:49
@kamstrup cat, if you want to cat a file...
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@dngrs@chaos.social 2026-05-03 07:57
@kamstrup well, that's ..... awkward
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@jacktrek@mountains.social 2026-05-03 08:02
@kamstrup it was even more intuitive originally: s (for search) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep#History
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@eseilt@mastodon.scot 2026-05-03 08:02
@kamstrup and awk if you need to look at documentation and give up and write a python script
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2026-05-03 08:03
@kamstrup sudo make me a sandwich (why didn't they call it 'please?'
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2026-05-03 08:11
@kamstrup or there are 2 where the name mirrors each-other like adduser useradd just for lols
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@fatoldhippy@infosec.exchange 2026-05-03 08:12
@kamstrup awk, obviously...
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@Amorpheus@kind.social 2026-05-03 08:18
@kamstrup True... just like awk for awkward.
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online 2026-05-03 08:20
@kamstrup And 'less' for when you need a little more more than more.
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@dean36963@mastodon.green 2026-05-03 08:22
@kamstrup or dd if you want to destroy a disk
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@hanscees@ieji.de 2026-05-03 08:22
@kamstrup I moved a file, and then wanted to move it back, thus removing it
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@nske@ravenation.club 2026-05-03 08:27
@kamstrup Then you can use nano to nano the file.
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@jmorahan@mastodon.ie 2026-05-03 08:32
@kamstrup or 'man' if you want something explained to you
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@heals@indiepocalypse.social 2026-05-03 08:50
@kamstrup or “ag”, “hx” and “awk” if you just wanted to stretch and yawn into your terminal @aeva
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@dsw@mastodontech.de 2026-05-03 08:52
@kamstrup Actually, you can also use them to tell a short story like: unzip | strip | touch | finger | grep | mount | fsck | unmount | sleep
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@elnecesario@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 09:03
@synlogic4242 @datn @kamstrup true 😂
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@lina@eientei.org 2026-05-15 13:43
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org this guy sounds like he uses cp for cp