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What stupidly easy tech solution do people gloss over all of the time? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they're being spied. Here's the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won't use it or haven't used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can't really spy on you on something that's already off and unplugged!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

mind expanding on what these solve?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Awk is a helps you do any kind of processing of semi structured text data.

Sed is a stream editor which lets you edit a file using commands. Which is tedious until you need to replace something in a bunch if files or make very specific edits across a large number of files.

Grep is just find pattern in text file.