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Yeah, those old tools got a lot of use for good reason. I've been trying to think of perl as a super-(awk|sed|grep) lately, and perl does it so well.

I think jq brings a lot of that cool awk mentality forward. I'm consistently impressed by all of the neat things it can do.



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