I've never bothered to learn much AWK, but that's mostly because Perl is my bread and butter language and has been for 20 years, and focusing on knowledge of that seemed a better investment (especially since with a few judicious flags, Perl is a passable AWK replacement even for very small one liners).
That said, if you just want to supplement your knowledge of other shell tools and pull out something that can do some obvious text munging, AWK has always looked attractive for the task to me.
sorry, why this is different to install perl? they look like still need download. I s this because they were contained in larger tool box so more easier get awk by other reasons?
p.s., thanks, I don't know I had have awk in git bash...
This comment reminds me of the joke about the sewage worker, who is chatting about his job and says 'to you it maybe just shit, but to me its my bread and butter'.
Internet always seems the similar, pipes|garbage in| and munging on urban dictionary.....
That said, if you just want to supplement your knowledge of other shell tools and pull out something that can do some obvious text munging, AWK has always looked attractive for the task to me.