Awk was great at its time, but when you need at write more than 5 lines of awk code please consider using python since 1. It is a lot faster than awk/perl/grep

Awk was great at its time, but when you need at write more than 5 lines of awk code please consider using python since 1. It is a lot faster than awk/perl/grep/sed combos 2. Way a lot readable and maintainable 3. More powerful than awk with it's string functionalities 4. Same availability as awk in OSs since last decade