I don't really have any reason to be an expert, or even passable, in CLI utilities like cat, grep, or sed, but I have decided I want to at least understand them well enough to make sense of what they're used for and be able to do some basics. If you work with a lot of text, which I do, they just seem too powerful to ignore.
Any recommendations for approachable resources that people love, and target the skill level I'm after?
#linux #cli #askfedi
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