Studying and awk came up.
Spent about an hour and I see some useful commands that extend past what “cut” can do. But really when dealing with printf() format statements is anyone using awk scripts for this?
Or is everyone just using their familiar scripting language. I’d reach for Python for the problems being presented as useful for awk.
I learned awk when I was studying and I still use it every now and then. It’s one of those tools that come in really handy at times. I work in Ruby, but there’s still times when scripting or just wanting to process some text when I end up using awk because it makes sense.