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What’s a handy cli tool you think others probably don’t but should know about?

Mine would be tldr; which is a community contributed and modern replacement for man pages. Gets you the information you’re looking for 90% of the time with way less reading.

h/t to @we for putting me down on it

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

I also really like `cut`.

I used it often for log processing like this, e.g.
```
$ cat nginx_access | grep 500 | cut -d " " -f 1,3
500 /frames/1
500 /frames/2
...

$ cat nginx_access | grep 500 | cut -d " " -f 1,3 | sort | uniq -c
10  500  /frames/1
22  500  /frames/2
...
```
It accepts any delimeter via (-d).

building • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

and the -f option accepts comma delimited (-f 1,5) or range (-f 1-3), works great with sort, uniq.

awk works too but i always trip over the braces and syntax.