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by ams6110 3283 days ago
I've written reasonably complicated stuff in awk (like a page or two of code). Probably could have solved those problems more elegantly with another tool, but I never learned perl, and I find awk simple enough that the man page is all I need to refresh my memory. For text manipulation that's a one-off or likely to not need further maintenance, I think it's great.