Which do you think would be better in terms of coming with all major distros and easiest to write compiler in: awk or bash? Ive forgotten both due to injury so cant tell without lots of experimenting.
AFAIK they're both ubiquitous, though you might need a particular awk like gawk for library functions, depending on what you need to do. Nowadays I'm way more likely to use Python, though of course it's a much bigger dependency.
Sorry about the injury, and good luck -- I'd like to hear how it goes.
Thanks for sharing awklisp. Nice reading for a Sunday morning.