• hlqxz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I never really fully understood awk and sed. I don’t know felt really complicated to me

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        1 year ago

        Yes, they’re bitches to learn/use.

        Now with ChatGPT you can have a lot help with bash commands. It even helped me start with Python.

  • cryomancer20x6@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    echo "Why use many word when few do trick" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)if(length($i)>3)printf("%s ",$i);print""}' echo "Why use many word when few do trick" | sed -e 's/\b\w\{1,3\}\b//g' echo "Why use many word when few do trick" | grep -oE '\b\w{4,}\b'