If you already know it, then yes, it's still handy sometimes. And it's a small language, unlike Perl. OTOH I'm not sure I'd recommend bothering to learn it. Py

If you already know it, then yes, it's still handy sometimes. And it's a small language, unlike Perl. OTOH I'm not sure I'd recommend bothering to learn it. Python is more verbose in Awk's domain, but not by so much as makes a huge difference, except at the scale of one-liners. (Or a-few-liners, at least.) Another reason to learn it: the AWK book (by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger) is a great very short intro to the spirit of Unix-style coding. You could think of learning Awk as just the price of admission to that intro, paid along the way. I wrote plenty of Awk in the 90s -- https://github.com/darius/awklisp https://github.com/darius/awklisp isn't very representative but it was fun.