Perl one-liners can be incredibly powerful, but I keep using awk because it's a much smaller and simpler language to keep in my head. My trusty old Camel book,

Perl one-liners can be incredibly powerful, but I keep using awk because it's a much smaller and simpler language to keep in my head. My trusty old Camel book, 2nd ed, is what, 500+ pages? For more complicated stuff I usually resort to python or even a compiled language.