You could also learn awk on bash/command line and save your awk-related command history. Keep your test data, awk script and awk command history in one director

You could also learn awk on bash/command line and save your awk-related command history. Keep your test data, awk script and awk command history in one directory so that you can review it later on if needed. Just keep it simple. Goes for bash scripting, sed, etc as well.