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Discussion on: What are your Favorite Text-Processing Tools?

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Corey McCarty • Edited

I primarily am working on csv or sql files (sometimes java files) and do editing with many tools. Python scripts iterate more easily then more complex Bash equivalent, but sometimes I like to iterate ideas in Bash one-liners with sed/awk/grep/sort/uniq. In some odd occasions I have generated sql from an excel sheet (form we give clients) and exported csv before wrapping with insert into that_table syntax. More particular find/replace is easiest with Programmer's Notepad (you can mix regex and \ stuff).

I use XML and YML both in my daily work and greatly prefer the latter. Markdown is good for more complex stuff though.