jq is the new sed

Everyone uses it
Nobody can remember the syntax
You could probably write an arkanoid with it, but you'd rather not know how

@raphink @intrbiz I use it quite frequently, which is why I'm annoyed that it has all the wrong defaults 😂

WHO USES WHITESPACE DELIMITERS ANY MORE!? WHO?

Then again, the same could be said for sed. I use perl -pe instead just to use a regex dialect that makes sense.

@jake_arkinstall @intrbiz I just write Augeas lenses so I can parse the format as a tree 🌲 😁

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