I use awk very often at my current job when analyzing our logs. I've been slowly compiling a list of useful shell pipelines, the majority of which involve awk.

I use awk very often at my current job when analyzing our logs. I've been slowly compiling a list of useful shell pipelines, the majority of which involve awk. Any time I need to do some novel analysis, I can steal the syntax/ideas from myself Mawk on debian is super fast and can determine statistics like messages/sec, uniq ip addresses for a particular user, etc from 10GB log files very quickly.