Did the popularity of AWK demise after Perl became ubiquitous?
Awk was always a tool for use in shell scripts and one liners, and is still going strong. Perl, not so much.
Perl for one-liners is extremely common. It was built with that in mind.
The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
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Re: The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
#12The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517525 - Jun 2023 (158 comments)
Yup, since that was only a few months ago, the current repost counts as a dupe.
Reposts are fine after a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.