Replacing bash+sed+awk is more or less why Perl was written initially (which also explains much of its syntax). I like it better than shell scripts mostly becau

Replacing bash+sed+awk is more or less why Perl was written initially (which also explains much of its syntax). I like it better than shell scripts mostly because the built-in data structures are a bit nicer. And I like Perl/PCRE regex syntax better than POSIX regex syntax.