Using sed to make indexes for books (long)

Using sed to make indexes for books (long)(pement.org)

20 points by TMWNN 3 days ago | 2 comments

janandonly 1 hour ago |

Two thought:

1. I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using it. Sometimes for a special need I’ll ask a LLM to write me a script in bash just to keep this spirit alive.

2. On the other hand, I’ve written a book and added an index by using Microsoft Word, and it was basically pretty easy to add. I don’t know why I should want to go back to a world of intricate command line tools to do a job that should just be easy enough?

skydhash 15 minutes ago | |

> I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using

You can find plenty of examples with a quick github search[0]. The query in the url is

  path:bin dotfiles language:Shell

A shell script is my first option for any automation. sed is for quick transformations and awk is for more procedural ones.

[0] https://github.com/search?q=path%3Abin+dotfiles+language%3AS...