python vs awk for simple sysamin tasks

[Pete Forman]

I recently rewrote a short shell script in python.  The latter was
about 30 times faster and I find myself reusing parts of it for other
tasks.

That said, I still would agree with others in this thread that one
liners are useful.  It is a good idea to be familiar with awk, find,
grep, sed, xargs, etc.
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