If you're in perl all the time that probably makes a lot of sense. For me, awk is one of the few languages that I can safely set aside for months and then I'm b

If you're in perl all the time that probably makes a lot of sense. For me, awk is one of the few languages that I can safely set aside for months and then I'm back up to speed in 10 minutes. There's just something very intuitive about it, and it somehow fits very naturally with other common command line tools.