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I've been disappointed to see a massive uptick in people writing a whole Python subprocess script instead of just an awk column select. They usually know awk, but Python is more familiar so they replace ten characters with a couple hundred.

It seems like fewer even want to learn a shell pipeline.




There was actually attempts to recreate Awk inside Python. See https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk




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