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Is anyone using awk?
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awk predates perl as well as python by a pretty large margin (1978); it's useful, of course, for processing things in a pipeline, but as it became obsolete as a general-purpose scripting language, users have had less and less of a reason to learn its syntax in detail -- so nowadays it shows up in one-liners where it could be replaced by a tiny bit of
cut.I had worked through a good bit of the O'Reilly 'sed & awk' book -- the first programming book I got, after being enticed by shell scripting in general. Once I learned a bit of Python, & got better at vim scripting, though, I started using it less and less; today I barely remember its syntax.