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by throwawayboise 1740 days ago
I use it a lot to filter, slice, and dice CSV (or other delimited) or fixed-format files. Sometimes I'll use q[1] if my needs are more complex. Or awk piped to q. It can be used as a fairly decent report generator for plain-text or HTML reports.

An time I want to process a bunch of lines in a text file, awk is my first consideration.

[1] http://harelba.github.io/q/