I find that for most of these use cases I'd rather just make a Vim macro. I already know Vim, so I don't have to learn and remember a new language. For cases w

I find that for most of these use cases I'd rather just make a Vim macro. I already know Vim, so I don't have to learn and remember a new language. For cases where it needs to be automated, Awk is probably the best tool. I don't know it though, and cases are few enough and far between so I've always just used Python.