See, when I'm writing a shell script interactively and work myself into a corner, I reach for awk, struggle with it for a bit, and then either: 1) succeed, and

See, when I'm writing a shell script interactively and work myself into a corner, I reach for awk, struggle with it for a bit, and then either: 1) succeed, and regret the messiness of the solution or 2) fail, and find a non-awk way to handle it. I really tried to like awk, but its portability hasn't been enough of a feature to raise it above other scripting languages for me. Especially if I'm going to end up in an editor