AWK was designed to harmoniously integrate with the Shell and follow the Unix philosophy. Perl and to some degree Ruby offer that as well. The ease with which a single line AWK script can be integrated in a Shell pipeline is what keeps it alive. Python very much does not offer that, Python scripts are standalone programs.
What other languages are out there that can do something as simple as 'print $2' in a Shell pipeline? jq comes to mind. #linux#unix#shell#awk#perl#ruby#python
