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Why is using a shell loop to process text considered bad practice?

Is `tail -f` more efficient than `less +F`?

Why some shells `read` builtin fail to read the whole line from file in `/proc`?

Check variable is an array in Bourne like shell?

What is the point of using multiple exclamation marks in sed?

How to make `-n=3` the same as `-n 3` in Perl 6?

Is this tail behavior in Grouping Commands specified by POSIX?

Can we force perl always use three argument form of open when running from command line?

How to troubleshoot rx_missed_errors?

Why zsh and ksh93 chose to be non-compliant in pattern matching?