What a useless comment. The OP is an interesting walkthrough of solving a highly specific problem in a clever way using a common but often poorly understood toolset. Then you come in and leave a snarkbomb trashing the idea that learning how to use this toolset is worthwhile without providing any reasoning or alternatives.
Do you also trash posts about learning how to build your own furniture or troubleshooting car engines?
What elevated domain do you operate in that only has perfectly elegant solutions to beautifully architected problems that use only tools perfectly crafted to solve those exact problems? Doesn’t sound like very interesting work to me.
How many problems related to text wrangling arise simply by working with Unix tools?
“This philosophical framework will help you solve problems internal to philosophy.”