I've seen some really f**ed up text formatted files in the wild. In those cases I really see value in using something more "intelligent" (and declarative rather

I've seen some really f**ed up text formatted files in the wild. In those cases I really see value in using something more "intelligent" (and declarative rather than imperative) rather than coding a non-trivial number of [python|bash] lines of code, especially when dealing with one-timers.