I really feel like there should come a point when by far the most time consuming part of my job isn't figuring out how to sed/grep or otherwise bash some **** that is like basic programming 101.
I'm working through all this advanced AWS DevOps stuff. It's tricky but I'm getting through it. Oh great now I get back a JSON string as output from one aws-cli call that I need to pluck one value from as input to another aws-cli call. But it's fairly easy because I can just search for something like /"Address": "([^"])"/ - right?
That'll be an hour of endless stack overflow and confusion and 80 billion possible ways to do it for the simplest **** ever. I've found at least 20 different ways to do sort of what I want, but not really. So far.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-regex-or-perl
And of course there's always a chance the stuff I'm doing on a mac doesn't work on ubuntu. I blame all of you *nix nerds for not revolting and demanding better.
This is exactly why I avoided becoming a linux guy for so long - just endless slog of command line arcanity. I think maybe running all my build jobs in a node environment and just doing this stuff with node scripts is a much better idea.
Last edited by suzzer99; 03-05-2019 at 10:43 PM.