Comment by philsnow
There's a ton of overlap between "powerful stuff that's easy to write in (g)awk" and "powerful stuff that's trivial to write in perl", but I find awk to be succinct without losing readability.
There's a ton of overlap between "powerful stuff that's easy to write in (g)awk" and "powerful stuff that's trivial to write in perl", but I find awk to be succinct without losing readability.