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On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 23:22:36 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> I never bothered to expend the brain cells to learn awk. perl does
> everything awk does, just as concisely, and a lot more besides.

That's what Larry Wall says...  Some of the stranger syntax of Perl is 
courtesy of awk, sed, and so forth.