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I would guess, from experience of people doing things the hard way, at:

* John A. Kunze's jot and rs

* John Kerl's mlr ("Miller")

* jq

* join and comm, as mentioned

* fmt

* ex

And, given what you just wrote:

* printf



A handy one to add to your list is:

seq[0]

EDIT: I didn't see that you had already included 'jot' so removed it from my original reply.

0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=seq&apropos=0&sekt...


I didn't include it because in my experience people don't overlook seq, whereas they do overlook jot. I only included things where I've encountered people overlooking such tools and doing things the hard way.


Do I remember correctly that “jot” was also the name of a gui text editor on unix systems as well (different from the program referred to in the parent comment)? I think I used it in the early 90s on an SGI workstation running sun solaris OS.


Are you thinking of joe? https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/


Yes, I remember a jot being the “notepad” of SGI workstations. Didn’t take me long to move on to nedit instead.




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