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by devnull255 1652 days ago
Awk is advanced in the sense that it is a programming language by itself. Years ago I had to migrate an old version of an Informix database to a newer version. The old version did not have tools to export the database as DDL and DML statements. So I had to create a tool myself to do it. The system did not have perl installed so I had to use awk. It worked nicely enough.