> for exploratory data analysis and for one-liner data extraction scripts I think both you and the author just don't like AWK if that's the takeaway. What you'

> for exploratory data analysis and for one-liner data extraction scripts I think both you and the author just don't like AWK if that's the takeaway. What you're describing is literally 1% of the AWK language -- like you don't have to like it, it's weird in many respects but you're treating AWK like it's jq when it's actually closer to like a Perl-Lite/Bash mix. An AWK focused on just those use-cases would look very different. One of my favorite resources on AWK: https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html