Pipelines or, more in general, an escape hatch within shell scripts when awk doesn't cut it, are indeed my main remaining use of Perl. I used it recently for so

Pipelines or, more in general, an escape hatch within shell scripts when awk doesn't cut it, are indeed my main remaining use of Perl. I used it recently for some JSON processing script, because I couldn't expect jq to be installed and I couldn't even know in advance if the Python interpreter was python, python3 or python3.8, but that was painful...