The weird thing about awk is that it can be written to look like an ordinary c-inspired scripting language. But it also supports the terse one-liners that we

The weird thing about awk is that it can be written to look like an ordinary c-inspired scripting language. But it also supports the terse one-liners that we see so often; and the general perception is that it's a language for wizards. The ordinary scripting language is hiding in plain sight.