I know this goes against what is said here but I hate awk. The syntax is so convoluted that it seems parts were picked with whatever was reasonable at the time.

I know this goes against what is said here but I hate awk. The syntax is so convoluted that it seems parts were picked with whatever was reasonable at the time. It's like I'm banging on rocks in a cave somewhere every time I have to work with bash, awk and related tools. In fact I did a quick bash script of pattern matching some files, moving them, resizing and compressing then uploading and it took three days to read man pages, parsing, etc till I got fed up, used ruby and had it done in under an hour.