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Awk was great at its time, but when you need at write more than 5 lines of awk code please consider using python since

1. It is a lot faster than awk/perl/grep/sed combos

2. Way a lot readable and maintainable

3. More powerful than awk with it's string functionalities

4. Same availability as awk in OSs since last decade




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