Comment by emblaegh
If you really want to learn another language specifically instead of something else, then getting well acquainted with bash and awk wouldn’t be wasted effort.
If you really want to learn another language specifically instead of something else, then getting well acquainted with bash and awk wouldn’t be wasted effort.
Especially awk, it's a DSL for quick text manipulation. Simpler than Perl and a better API than Python for that specific use case. It's essentially a filter that applies to a specific region identified by a regex.