• Badabinski@kbin.earth
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      I was waiting for someone to come along with this response lmao

      I’m terrible at remembering shell string operation syntax, but this is the ultimate answer.

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        Definitely not the ultimate, since it’s not POSIX, but still a nice tidbit.

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          Idk, writing POSIX-compliant shell is so miserable that I avoid doing it when I can. You can use Bash on BSD and all other unixes, so it’s still a relatively portable solution.

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            True enough, but it’s pretty much the same to use sed, unless you need those milliseconds of performance boost.