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Using un*x since the 90s, this is all I know. I like awk but it can go fucking complicated, I once maintain a 5000 lines script that was parsing csv to generate JavaScript...
Someone used the wrong tool for the job. If an awk script gets more than a few dozen lines, it's time to use another language/tool to process that data.