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Awk can be used as a unix pipeline tool, or it can be used more as a stand-alone that you make scripts/programs in to do larger tasks.

Similarly, Perl falls under the same category, being an awk/sed replacement. But considering Perl just a unix pipeline tool is also severely underselling it.



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