I'll admit that I don't know perl, which I believe is the typical sed+awk replacement. According to my potentially miscalibrated gut, referencing a "fully-fled

I'll admit that I don't know perl, which I believe is the typical sed+awk replacement. According to my potentially miscalibrated gut, referencing a "fully-fledged" scripting language in a shell script or at the command line is an indication that you should probably just be working in that environment in the first place. There will be exceptions, it depends chiefly on the problem being solved, but overall I prefer my shell scripts to reference utilities with very specific purposes. It feels UNIXier that way.