sedI really fucking hate sed. Here’s an example of why. Compare the
following to the Perl standard:
echo "## Some Header" | sed 's/#\+ *//'
echo "## Some Header" | perl -ane 's/#+ *//'
It’s just one character that needs to be escaped (the \+) but the
other * does not need it. This inconsistency is why people went
bat-shit crazy trying to use regular expressions with sed and awk
and all their different versions. It’s the reason perl was invented in
the first place.