Whatever you can do in one Turing complete language you can also do in all other Turing complete languages. The point isn't what you can do, the point is what tasks are easier, simpler or faster to do in one language compared to another language, while also respecting how hard the language is to learn to get to the point where can can do what you want (easily).

I would prefer to use Perl over bash/awk/sed since Perl is good at the same things and more and has alot more libraries.