I have written so much Awk over the years, its not even funny.
The one awk script I will never forget, ~30 years ago, was written in 20 minutes when 4 days of C code became untenable.
It was a "hmm.. wonder if I can just push the parsing to AWK" moments that became an epiphany. We didn't have to tell anyone we'd replaced their custom C database loader with a shell script, at least not in those days .. our Friday nights were precious, then.
The one awk script I will never forget, ~30 years ago, was written in 20 minutes when 4 days of C code became untenable.
It was a "hmm.. wonder if I can just push the parsing to AWK" moments that became an epiphany. We didn't have to tell anyone we'd replaced their custom C database loader with a shell script, at least not in those days .. our Friday nights were precious, then.