alt Hacker NewsI would have liked to see head, tail, tr, uniq, and cut. I end up dragging over the old "gnuwin32" versions of those to a lot of Windows machines. Those are my go-to tools for quick-and-dirty log analysis.
I know I could use Powershell for those kinds of tasks, and I certainly do make a lot of use of Powershell, but the familiarity of those simple tools and the decades-old "muscle memory" of using them on various Unix, Linux, and Windows boxes makes them hard to ditch.
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I use those commands also to filter output and fee ai agents with that. Tail and Head are my favourites to avoid wasting tokens. Wayy too many fancy build logs messages.
Windows has lacked decent ports of recent GNU tools for a while. I still use some very old ones. It would be great if MS worked on the other tool groups like textutils.
> I would have liked to see head, tail, tr, uniq, and cut.
The project includes all of those. Or were you talking about the past?