I have found a handful of unconventional applications for awk -- I once needed a tiny pcm pulsewave generator, and awk was surprisingly decent for the job [1].

I have found a handful of unconventional applications for awk -- I once needed a tiny pcm pulsewave generator, and awk was surprisingly decent for the job [1]. Aside from that I've mostly been using it for quick statistics [2], but it quickly moves into perl territory... 1: https://github.com/9001/asm/blob/hovudstraum/etc/bin/beeps#L69-L88 https://github.com/9001/asm/blob/hovudstraum/etc/bin/beeps#L... 2: https://ocv.me/doc/unix/oneliners/#965bfcb8 https://ocv.me/doc/unix/oneliners/#965bfcb8