>"It's either 6 minutes with 20 lines of AWK written in five minutes. Or 6 seconds in 300 lines of java written in five days. Classic "XKCD: Is It Worth the Tim

>"It's either 6 minutes with 20 lines of AWK written in five minutes. Or 6 seconds in 300 lines of java written in five days. Classic "XKCD: Is It Worth the Time?" It's exactly this. Is it going to be run many times or just once or a few times? Is it going to be run in production where it impacts customers or runs up the AWS bill? If it's a throwaway script, the Linux terminal and some Awk is hard to beat. There are always tradeoffs.