Most if is is basically just an SQL type query on a text file. Awk actually has a fairly simple learning curve for queries like this, one can do stuff similar

Most if is is basically just an SQL type query on a text file. Awk actually has a fairly simple learning curve for queries like this, one can do stuff similar to this after a couple hours of playing around. EDIT: I couldn't find the tutorial I used but the digital ocean one seems like a good brief intro that would get you 90% of the way to understanding that awk command. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-awk-language-to-manipulate-text-in-linux https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-... I agree that awk, sed etc look like line noise at first!