> WHY are awk and sh/bash the "best" thing on nearly all Linux machines, the default choice? From my experience with of them: They are good enough. Leapfroggin

> WHY are awk and sh/bash the "best" thing on nearly all Linux machines, the default choice? From my experience with of them: They are good enough. Leapfrogging software with incremental advances only works sometimes and the "standard env" is already very advanced. I do appreciate the features provided by, e.g., ripgrep over GNU grep but I can likely get the job done without it. There are ofc some exceptions, like jq for JSON handling, but I have only really seen that used by developers. However I've rarely seen it on legacy/ production machines because it often makes more sense to use Python/ Perl at this stage.