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Is anyone using awk?
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Yes! Awk is great, I use it all the time for text processing problems that are beyond the scope of normal filters but aren't worth writing a whole program for. It's pretty versatile, and you can split expressions up and chain them together when they get too complicated. Try piping the output into
shsometime. It can be messy though and myawkprograms tend to be write-only