The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make
I'm a big awk fan but I'm not sold on this. The awk program is not very readable- I think that's fine for a dense one-liner, I'm not really sure it carries over to a 60 line script. I think for something like this I'd prefer a bash script, maybe with awk invoked somewhere, that would be much easier to understand at a glance.<p>Is there something in the awk script that makes it advantageous over a shell script?<p>Edit: I hadn't read the author's conclusion yet when I posted, he agrees<p><pre><code>  I consider AWK amazing, but I think it should remain where it excels: for exploratory data analysis and for one-liner data extraction scripts</code></pre>