Bash and Awk are not the same class of languages, so they can't be compared to/replace each other. Bash is a glue language, while Awk a scripting one, so it ra

Bash and Awk are not the same class of languages, so they can't be compared to/replace each other. Bash is a glue language, while Awk a scripting one, so it rather makes sense to compare Awk with Python/Ruby/similar.