- scripting some unix helpu script
- searching google and stackoverflow for simple solutions:

"Just use 'sed --akeib )-£?"/'/#'. Can't you read man pages ffs?"

"Dude, awk is totally the thing you want to use for this kinda thing!"

"Honestly, have you ever heard of perl?"

Your point?
Either sed, awk and perl are probably the best tools for the job (which you don't say what it is).
I don't get your rant, sed and awk are core parts of Unix, what answer did you expect? Something exotic like ruby,lua,go? Not even python is guaranteed to be in any Unix/BSD /Linux system.

@nbamaral It's not a rant, it's a joke. I'm aware that those tools are unbeatable in many situations, but there might be simpler solutions for the average person than just using those tools for almost every task.

@Maexmon it actually depends on the task! For example for writing from the second line of stdin into a file I use awk. Could I do it with sed? Maybe. Could I do it in another, maybe simpler way? Possibly. Do I care? Certainly not!

@Maexmon
Ok then 😊

@7Raiden
sed -e 2p 😀
Nothing really beats sed dealing with huge files or fixing little things on binaries. Still know awk, but only use it for little things two, anything bigger I go with perl.