I’ve reached for some complex awk when I am looking to parse snippets of code where breaking out a full language parser would have been too much.

One example is parsing statements from a Dockerfile but only within certain stages of the image. So I reach for regex range in awk and I can make something that works everywhere.

Of course I probably could have done the same thing in python by controlling the beginning and end via variables, but I like awk sometimes.

Not sure if people think I’m weird, but I’ll write down names of neighbors in Google keep.

Like Michael scott “brad, 2 kids with orange cat named sunny”