• TechLich@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I never understood why so many bash scripts pipe grep to awk when regex is one of its main strengths.

    Like… Why

    grep ^nvme0n1 | awk '{print $3}'

    over just

    awk '/^nvme0n1/ {print $3}'