Studying and awk came up.
Spent about an hour and I see some useful commands that extend past what “cut” can do. But really when dealing with printf() format statements is anyone using awk scripts for this?
Or is everyone just using their familiar scripting language. I’d reach for Python for the problems being presented as useful for awk.
cutis actually next to useless, because it cannot understand that multiple spaces can still be a single separator in most text files in/etc. You have to use AWK.