Awk is great for snippets that are meant to be copy+pasted into a shell, and is the only reasonable option sometimes if you're stuck in a Busybox environment, b

Awk is great for snippets that are meant to be copy+pasted into a shell, and is the only reasonable option sometimes if you're stuck in a Busybox environment, but for almost everything else you'd be better off with Python. This previous comment of mine goes into a bit more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23242753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23242753