I found an article over at Linux Journal that lead with the sentence:
When grep and sed aren’t enough, gawk may provide the extra horsepower that you need.
I would have to argue against that. Nothing personal against gawk, awk itself, or any of it’s variants. I personally love awk. Though I would rewrite their first sentence a bit.
When grep and sed aren’t enough, you obviously don’t know enough grep and sed.
At any rate he does provide some gawk examples that aren’t totally worthless but certainly don’t require it over grep and/or sed. I am guessing that there will be some decent examples either way in the comments section as well.
