> However, learning simpler Unix tools - i.e. grep, sed and awk - is worth the trouble The deeper issue is .. maybe not. I never have any interesting data lyin

> However, learning simpler Unix tools - i.e. grep, sed and awk - is worth the trouble The deeper issue is .. maybe not. I never have any interesting data lying around in text files, it's all in SQL databases or behind JSON APIs or maybe in XML or even Excel files. So if one doesn't need sed/awk/grep/etc, then they are never going to reach for perl.