Well, if I can do something in one line (albeit perhaps a long line), awk is my preferred tool. But as soon as things get complicated, one is almost certainly

Well, if I can do something in one line (albeit perhaps a long line), awk is my preferred tool. But as soon as things get complicated, one is almost certainly better off in a richer environment -- bash, Python, node.js, etc. So I don't view it as one versus the other, but rather picking the right tool for the job -- which the Unix philosophy very much liberates us to do.