Used AWK a whole lot in early 90s for massaging source code. Mostly to analyse and refactor 1m+ LOC of COBOL. And Awk was brilliant for that. Have used it ever

Used AWK a whole lot in early 90s for massaging source code. Mostly to analyse and refactor 1m+ LOC of COBOL. And Awk was brilliant for that. Have used it ever since when needed to text process. Around 2000 was using it a lot to get convert systems by running reports on old system and then getting the data from output text files. Clunky way to do it but faster than typing when there is no way to get the data directly. If a system can print to a text file then the data is available. Use awk still on Windows, OSX and Linux. Its an essential tool when faced with string/text processing tasks.