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Have you ever used the "column" command? (tinkerbetter.tube)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's one of the few things that I think Powershell did more cleanly than Linux, was making those kind of options a lot clearer and pushing people to use them early on in education cycles, so knowledge of these cmdlets is more common than the Linux equivalents. (I know that's harder to do with an all-volunteer OS built from the ground up versus a private company influencing education cycles, obviously. Linux always had the harder road.)

Format-Custom, Format-Hex, Format-List, Format-Table, and Format-Wide are pretty indispensable when working with Powershell.

Because precisely, 90% of the time, when it comes to Linux, the way you're taught is to just grep what you need out.

I've taken classes for both Powershell and Linux command line in college, and the PS class focused a lot on those commands while the Linux class never once mentioned column while spending a lot of time on grep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I’ve taken classes for both Powershell and Linux command line in college, and the PS class focused a lot on those commands while the Linux class never once mentioned column while spending a lot of time on grep.

column belongs to util-linux

A Linux class. Never mentioned column. Mind == boggled.

Ironically grep is its own program. Although commonly it's the GNU one, so could be considered in the same group as coreutils.

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