[core-questions]

Think of Awk as being to traditional tab or whitespace separated Unix command output, as `jq` is to JSON command output. Extract a field, loop and iterate, template output, etc.

Now remember, this was popular when perl wasn't even something you could depend upon on all systems.

These days there's no reason you should even do anything terribly complicated in a nasty oneliner. Just save a nice function somewhere and call it with a concise alias.