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cat vs sed vs awk
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Sed and awk have a lot of overlap. Another thing to consider is that neither might be the right choice if you are inside a bash script since spawning a new process in a tight loop can be very expensive and bash's built-in regex operations can have much better performance in those situations.
That's a good point. If I need something like a bash script I tend to stick to bash features as much as possible.