A good textsmith doesn’t look for one command that does everything. He looks for small utilities that each do one thing well. This is the lesson that we draw from this nugget.

This interesting nugget is on version controlling your application configuration files

These commands work beautifully for simple CSV files, but they are not full CSV parsers. Quoted fields containing commas, embedded newlines, escaped quotes, and similar cases are where awk needs care—or where a dedicated CSV parser becomes the right tool.