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cat vs sed vs awk
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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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What is it you want to do?
just trying to get a good mental model of when it's reasonable to use tools like awk instead of simpler unix tools. also further confirming that sed is almost never the best tool except for substitutions.
Ok, I would say... cat is mostly used for output of files, and concatenating files. sed and awk are good at reshaping the output of files or piped std input. They both require some time to learn, but it is worth going back to them.