I love using awk. It was fairly easy to pick up, and it slides into my command line workflow pretty well. That said, there's an amazing amount you can do with

I love using awk. It was fairly easy to pick up, and it slides into my command line workflow pretty well. That said, there's an amazing amount you can do with it, if you really try. Someone once joked that I should try building an IRC bot in AWK, so I did: https://github.com/Marcus316/rufus https://github.com/Marcus316/rufus There's no pactical reason for it, but it was fun to play with the idea.