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Found while doing forensics on some rediscovered loose flash drives.
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I think I misunderstood you, when you said "manually", to mean as a human intervention in the process. What you're showing here is an extra processing step, but I wouldn't call that manual. Just want to clear that up, but I'm still down to play.
Instead of three greps, you could use one sed or awk. I don't think there's anything particularly wizardly about awk, and it would be a lot less cryptic, to me, than this chain of greps.
But a much better idea would be to use
sensors -jto get json output, intended for machine reading, and pass that tojq. Since I don't have the same sensors output as you, I'm not sure exactly what that would be, but I am guessing probably something like:I look forward to seeing how you would do this in PS. As I said previously, I don't know it at all, so I'm not sure what you're comparing this to.
Yes, it’s not manual by the dictionary definition, but it is an extra step. This is another meaning of manual in my particular bubble [Edit: that I didn’t think to specify].
This is my initial point, exactly. Dealing with objects is way easier than using the ‘default’ line-wise processing. Only Powershell made that the default, while in Linux you need to hope that utilities have an option to toggle it on – and then also have
jqinstalled to process the objects.[Edit, since I forgot to answer your main point:] I don’t program in PS. I don’t like the verbosity. But I do think MS has a point in pushing objects as the prime unit in processing instead of lines.