In 1996 I worked as a federal contractor for a US Army base. They had different Unix systems locked down for security reasons. Had Awk and Sed to work with and

In 1996 I worked as a federal contractor for a US Army base. They had different Unix systems locked down for security reasons. Had Awk and Sed to work with and ordered the books from Amazon. Oracle databases and other databases exported data in fixed width files and I had to download from several Nix systems to import into one general Nix system using Oracle and then a DOS based Clipper 5 system and an Access 2.0 Windows system and they all had to get the same results. If not for Awk I could not filter the files from the Nix systems.