Hehehe I have done it, but I find that I can accomplish the tasks easier in other ways.

For searching I use a lot of other tools I should have mentioned fzf, fd, ack and mdfind.

Or I simply use my favorite text editor TextMate. I just open it in the directory I want to search. It support regular expressions, filtering out specific files and all that.

A problem for me with sed and awk is that they are too much mental overhead for me. I simply cannot remember over time how to use them.

I tend to keep a lot of my writing e.g. in tools like iA Writer or Ulysses which has pretty good search and filtering tools built in. So search is probably not something I lean that much on Unix tools even if that is a classic use case.

I suspect that if I was an administrator, DevOps or something similar I would use these tools differently.