awk

awk

pattern-directed scanning and processing language

a field editor

I used to think awk was weirdly archaic, arcane, obtuse, and inscrutible.

How funny!

Now I love it!

Further Reading:

• https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/
• https://ia803404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf
• https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Awk_Primer