There is a book, "Minimal Perl", that is entirely about that usecase. I found it convincing, 15 years ago, and the only Perl I use are those terse command line

There is a book, "Minimal Perl", that is entirely about that usecase. I found it convincing, 15 years ago, and the only Perl I use are those terse command line snippets it teached, when others might use some combination of grep, sed and awk. I don't know if it is the best tool for the job, but it has worked for me.