I used to use awk all the time whenever I wanted to evaluate specific portions of a columnar file (With a short one liner). Python comes close but, awk is much

I used to use awk all the time whenever I wanted to evaluate specific portions of a columnar file (With a short one liner). Python comes close but, awk is much faster. In conjunction with SED, I think that is a little much and imo exceeds what I was doing. If I need to do any replacing or 'cleaning', I would then use something like Python or SQL.