Awk is great for quick command line scripts and also for running on a very wide range of systems. I recently wrote a simple statistics tool using Awk to calcul

Awk is great for quick command line scripts and also for running on a very wide range of systems. I recently wrote a simple statistics tool using Awk to calculate median, variance, deviation, etc. and people say the code is readable and good for seeing the simplicity of Awk. https://github.com/numcommand/num/blob/master/bin/num https://github.com/numcommand/num/blob/master/bin/num