Great article. Really enjoyed it. Having just gone through a project with significant amounts of high volume text manipulation in PowerShell, it's amazing to me how simple and effective this is. And, ...

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I use awk all the time, but generally only to conveniently pull a particular field out of data that I’m workin with. Regardless of the separator used, awk makes it easy to extract just what you need.

Wow. It’s amazing we ever made it out of the 20th century. It’s like reading about farmers who would plow by hand. I remember the epiphany (long time ago) of discovering how awk solved my problem of ...