My love for #plaintext and #awk (as well as other Unix text-processing tools) was rejuvenated by a recent nerdsnipe¹ problem someone shared.
They had a WordGrinder² file which is a container-type format that can hold multiple documents (such as multiple individual chapters of a book) in the same document file. As far as we could tell, there's no native way to flatten all those sub-documents into a flat single file, and there was no way to export them into a multipart output document.
Fortunately, that WordGrinder file format is just plaintext. It didn't take more than ~10 minutes to reverse-engineer the basics of the file-format and then cobble together an awk(1) one-liner to do the flattening. Worked perfectly on the first try.
US #Academia question:
Is it normal for a PhD student to have a long CV (more than 2 pages, say 6 pages)?
What about for an undergraduate student?
I was taught (engineering school in France) that your CV shouldn't be more than 2 pages long, I know it's different in Academia when you go "up the ladder" but 6 pages for these stages seems like a lot.