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Two thought:

1. I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using it. Sometimes for a special need I’ll ask a LLM to write me a script in bash just to keep this spirit alive.

2. On the other hand, I’ve written a book and added an index by using Microsoft Word, and it was basically pretty easy to add. I don’t know why I should want to go back to a world of intricate command line tools to do a job that should just be easy enough?

by janandonly

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  • Two thought:

    1. I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using it. Sometimes for a special need I’ll ask a LLM to write me a script in bash just to keep this spirit alive.

    2. On the other hand, I’ve written a book and added an index by using Microsoft Word, and it was basically pretty easy to add. I don’t know why I should want to go back to a world of intricate command line tools to do a job that should just be easy enough?

    by janandonly
  • Previously:

    Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080505 - Jan 2018 (17 comments)

    by tomhow
Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) · Birbla