I use awk only if it&#x27;s a trivial one-liner. The only awk I can remember is selecting specific columns in whitespace-separated text. If it&#x27;s just a single column, I&#x27;ll try to use cut(1).<p>For anything more complicated, I&#x27;ll use Python. Because if it&#x27;s something that is going to have a somewhat long life, and that I would need to feed into plotting, I&#x27;d rather use Python. Because I remember the bad old days of plot(1).