While dating back to the 70s, AWK remains an incredibly useful component of the POSIX toolbox. Even if you're a great fan of WYSIWYG tools, there are chances, if you deal with relatively large data sets, that you will need to somehow preprocess your data before feeding them into your favorite spreadsheet. As of myself, I couldn't imagine doing that with another tool than AWK. But of course, you may have a different opinion! Anyway, here is a relatively complete presentation of the AWK programmin