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[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I just use nushell’s builtins instead of wrangling with IFS and bash idiosyncrasies. It's been years since I've corrupted data by parsing text wrong.

But even if someone doesn't want that: apart from using it in legacy scripts, grep is just a strictly less useful ripgrep these days, no?