I highly recommend awk because you can learn it in 20 minutes [1] So you can start by spending 20 minutes to learn awk, and then spend 20 years to learn Perl (

I highly recommend awk because you can learn it in 20 minutes [1] So you can start by spending 20 minutes to learn awk, and then spend 20 years to learn Perl (and use awk in the mean time) [1]: https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html