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[–] Kissaki 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can easily parse this using awk, sed, fzf,

Well… I would know how to do it easily in C# or Nushell. But those tools? Maybe it's easy when you're already intuitively familiar with them. But line/string splitting seems anything but with complex utils like that with many params and a custom syntax.

[–] Ferk 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That quote was in the context of simply separating values with newlines (and the list also included "your language’s split or lines function").

Technically you don't even need awk/sed/fzf, just a loop in bash doing read would allow you to parse the input one line at a time.

while read line; do 
   echo $line # or whatever other operation
done < whateverfile

Also, those manpages are a lot less complex than the documentation for C# or Nushell (or bash itself), although maybe working with C#/nushell/bash is "easy when you’re already intuitively familiar with them". I think the point was precisely the fact that doing that is easy in many different contexts because it's a relatively simple way to separate values.

[–] Kissaki 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I see they did mention "your languages functions". It's just, subjectively, reading awk and sed next to "easily" irritates me. Because I've never found it easy to get into those.

[–] prma 1 points 4 months ago

Sure. You should use whatever you are comfortable with. That's the point. When you don't need special parsers or tools, you can more easily adopt your tooling for the job, because almost every language has tools to deal with files. ( I assume there is some language that doesn't, who knows?)