I wonder. Unless you have this syntax (and their semantics) memorized so that it just flies from your fingers, it does seem much easier to me to use whatever yo

I wonder. Unless you have this syntax (and their semantics) memorized so that it just flies from your fingers, it does seem much easier to me to use whatever your language of choice is (Python, Java, ...) to whip up a script. Sure, awk will be terser, but in my case at least, the bottleneck will not be typing, it will be looking up awk features and syntax. Maybe if you do this every day though. I only have need for things like this once every few months.