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When was the last time you used sed and/or awk?

I'm thinking of preparing a lecture, for a High School Computer Club, on the command line tools sed and awk for data manipulation. The discussion will include some examples of using the command to mung a data set. I found the commands valuable over my technology career but wonder how relevant are they today?

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  • in reply to jomoenginer

    The advantage of using something like 'sed' or 'awk' or other shell type commands is that they are pretty much standard with most Linux type distros.  Something like Python has to be installed separately or what is there is too old. So, when working in an evironment that requires a minimal Linux install, such as a Docker container and such, it is a fair bet that they will contain some sort of shell with many of the standard tools, although there might be some differences in what is included in a distro. 

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