There’s a fine line between classy masochism and utter batshit insane lunacy, sir.

It's such a nebulous thing, eh? I'd say `Awk` (like curl, sed, grep, etc.) is part of the Bash toolkit. But then why isn't Python?

I guess the idea is that Bash is about piping together these small programs that typically take stdio and produce stdout. I think these have a name.. like GNU-style programs or something.

It's called UNIX scripts, GNU is Not Unix.

AWK is not GNU. GAWK may be.

and sed