Well, at current, I’m interning at the IISc, as a research intern. A large chunk of my work is analysing logs that this implementation spews out and providing it to the team. These analysis reports enable us to look at trends, false positives and the such. Since the logs are 40,000 lines of stuff that’s difficult to make sense out of, I used bash shell scripting with awk to extract data from it, and sort it etc. Awk is great! I’m no expert yet, but given the time, I’ll go ahead and practice it some more. If you’d like to jump into awk, start here
Yes , is a good tool .
Learn sed too and you’ll be unstoppable!
Awk, sed, and bash have been my primary tools for sysadmining for 25 years. They run unbelievably fast for most common tasks.. [my perl has never gotten past perl4 because when I need it those parts haven't changed]
I know no perl yet, maybe I’ll add it as my next TODO! Thanks!