I wouldn't put Perl as easier to use, but it certainly is more powerful and has a vast ecosystem. And it is more portable, since there's no need to worry about

I wouldn't put Perl as easier to use, but it certainly is more powerful and has a vast ecosystem. And it is more portable, since there's no need to worry about GNU/BSD/etc variations. And I wrote a book for Perl one-liners as well (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_perl_oneliners/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_perl_oneliners/), which I'm currently revising (like I did for the grep/sed/awk ebooks).