This may be from 2012, but it's surprising just how much of the specific advice still applies. Grep, sed, awk, xargs etc are still the canonical list of shell tools for debugging, and have been for decades. Makes you realise, learning Unix tools will likely be a better long term time investment than the latest trendy framework. I wish I could go back in time and tell that to my younger self...
Couldn't agree more! When I am forced to use a Windows environment I find myself reaching out to these evergreen tools in many situations and is frustrated by having to find workarounds to these tools that should be ubiquitous tools in any OS. Everything I learned almost 30 years ago still holds true today when it comes to the basics. And yes I know of Cygwin, MKS toolkit etc, but trying to convince corporate IT in a…
Lots of times it is really nice to have all your "debugging scripts" in a repo anyway. Once you have that it isn't hard to set up a basic Python environment and have your scripts there.