Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language
I only recently learned Awk enough to be useful. But I still don't reach for it when I probably should.What are the most common cases where you reach for Awk instead of some other tools?I recently used it to parse and recombine data from the OpenVPN status file.  That file has a few differently formatted tables in the same file. Using Awk, I was able to change a variable as each table was encountered, this I could change the Awk program behavior by which table it was operating on.