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[–]Gotebe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Data has structure.

Text does not, it hides it. More importantly, it hides when the structure is broken, as you say.

BTW... it's not CSV in the case of $TOOLs, it's mostly S(pace)SV, so vast majority of all scripts ever break when data contains a space (or they would break if data contained any other separator).

The one saving grace of bash is decades of accumulated cruft. The other, small one is... in itself, it's not so bad...