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No, uh-uh. You can't sweep a data loss bug under the rug, under any circumstances, especially in a filesystem. Curdle someone's data just once and they'll never trust you again.

AWK. The hour I spent learning AWK way back when must have saved me a few days, cumulatively, on mundane data munging tasks over the years.

Mostly bioinformatics these days. I’m in academia, and have been virtually all my career, so I can’t really speak to whether a Ph.D. is worth it in industry.

My Ph.D. advisor gave me his copy when I was just getting started with my thesis, almost twenty years ago. I remember spending 6-7 very intense weeks with it. It gave me most of th…