Ruby? It has perlisms and awkisms around, here's a stupid example: echo -e "foo 1\nbar 2\nbaz 3" | ruby -n -e 'BEGIN { puts "===" }; $_ =~ /^b\S+ (.*)/ and

Ruby? It has perlisms and awkisms around, here's a stupid example: echo -e "foo 1\nbar 2\nbaz 3" | ruby -n -e 'BEGIN { puts "===" }; $_ =~ /^b\S+ (.*)/ and puts "#{$_.chomp.upcase} => #{$1}"; END { puts "===" }' There's -p too, -0777 works for slurp mode, throw in -rjson to get battery-included pretty_generate, interpolation can be nicer, but $_ is not implicitly used so it can get a bit more verbose than Perl.