sed is just a cut down version of ed. Natural evolution of UNIX syntax came mainly from the 'one true' editor. I use awk more as a anonymous function at the en

sed is just a cut down version of ed. Natural evolution of UNIX syntax came mainly from the 'one true' editor. I use awk more as a anonymous function at the end of a pipeline nowadays and mainly for small stuff where I'm too lazy to use cut or when grep sed and tr may not be sufficient for complex filtering. Surprised there isn't more of a response here on this site. Even users that don't use awk directly use a language which has been directly influenced by it like ruby and of course the original chainsaw perl.