11 engineers on Hacker News describe using AWK first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“some AWK for quick file processing (you'd be surprised how fast can it be)”
endorse · production · gjulianm · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love awk. I've been using it for over 25 years. But awk is usually not a good choice for processing CSV files.”
mixed · personal · 25 yr · coolgeek · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was a "hmm.. wonder if I can just push the parsing to AWK" moments that became an epiphany.”
endorse · production · somesortofsystm · 2020-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Things I have become an expert in that are now useless to me and probably not valued by an employer”
regret · production · pkteison · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to do the ad-hoc approach to (with an ugly-ass awk script) but since I found ragel, never again!”
regret · personal · aidenn0 · 2012-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“vim works just fine, as do R, matlab, python, scipy, bash, awk, sed, etc”
endorse · production · earl · 2012-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“20 years of muscle memory writing bash / python / perl / awk / sql / ruby / JS / CSS selectors”
neutral · production · 20 yr · seanp2k2 · 2023-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started out rolling our own pipeline with sed and awk and the usual suspects.”
neutral · production · markbnj · 2019-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“familiarizing myself with different commands, such as sed, grep and awk, to navigate around the command line and edit files”
neutral · personal · catacombs · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“any funky research is done by good ol' awk/grep/sed.”
neutral · production · sehrope · 2013-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“especially if you include sed/awk in there”
neutral · production · ccashell · 2011-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?