I agree with the interactive usecase. But for when you don't want an extra dependency, awk and perl are better than bash and just about as ubiquitous. (I might

I agree with the interactive usecase. But for when you don't want an extra dependency, awk and perl are better than bash and just about as ubiquitous. (I might dare to say more ubiquitous, since MacOS in particular ships with an ancient version of bash that can't even use this jb tool. But the versions of awk and perl it comes with are fine.)