As I do most of my daily work in cheminformatics with a (shell-based) workflow engine (http://scipipe.org http://scipipe.org), awk has turned out to be the perf

As I do most of my daily work in cheminformatics with a (shell-based) workflow engine (http://scipipe.org http://scipipe.org), awk has turned out to be the perfect way of defining even quite complicated components based on just a shell command. These days, pretty much 50% of my components are CSV/TDV data munging with awk! :D (Can be hard to explain how this works without an image, so an (older) image is found in: https://twitter.com/smllmp/status/984173696448434176 https://twitter.com/smllmp/status/984173696448434176 )