Mastodawn

R.L. Dane

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Feb 4

File this under #shell #functions I should have written years ago:

function grepc {
    #Do a grep -c, but skipping files with no results
    grep -c "$@" |grep -v ':0$'
}

#unix #UnixShell #ShellScripting #bash #ksh

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Amin, minor deity of the legume realm Feb 4

@rl_dane

Oh, didn't know about -c. I usually just pipe to wc -l I guess.

-c, -l, -h, -H, and -q are my favorite #grep flags. :D

Huh, that almost became a [Marcel Duchamp] reference. 😅

Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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Amin, minor deity of the legume realm Feb 4

@rl_dane

I just use -v and -E

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sotolf Feb 4

@amin @rl_dane you guys use flags?... :p

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thedoctor Feb 4

@amin @rl_dane @sotolf You guys still use grep instead of ripgrep. Tst

@thedoctor @amin @sotolf

...and bash instead of zsh
...and grep/awk/sed instead of jq
...and firefox instead of chrome
...and the fediverse instead of facebook

Face it... I'm an unpopular-opinion neckbeard level boss. XD

cc: @mirabilos

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Amin, minor deity of the legume realm Feb 5

@rl_dane @thedoctor @sotolf @mirabilos

...and grep/awk/sed instead of jq

Okay, now that one is crazy.

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thedoctor Feb 5

@amin Absolutely.

@rl_dane @sotolf @mirabilos

@thedoctor @amin @sotolf @mirabilos

LISTEN, I've used grep/awk/sed for very nearly a quarter century, and I find the syntax of jq bewildering, so 😝

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mirabilos Feb 8

@amin @rl_dane @thedoctor @sotolf jq is absolutely bewildering, especially the insistence on filtering (splitting the input stream is so hard and counter-intuitive), but it’s an ok tool if you have JSON. Or YAML, which I [convert (user=pass public)] to JSON anywwy.

xmlstarlet is lovely!

@mirabilos @amin @thedoctor @sotolf

Is it possible to convert JSON to XML and then use xmlstarlet? 😄

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