The best replacement for awk is sed.

The best alternatives to awk are rated as following:
★★★★★  sed
★★★★  perl
★★★  grep
★★  cut
★★  gawk
★  nawk
★  grep faster
  sed faster
  ack
  mawk
  awk

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Speaking about awk, one probably shouldn't forget about grep.

Other search terms related to awk and their ratings are:
★★★★★ grep
★★★★★ regex
★★★★ delimiter
★★★ two files
★★ single quotes
★★ sed
★★ newline
★★ examples
★★ input file
★★ field separator
★ shell variables
★ sort
★ sum
★ first line
substr
bash variable
2 files
separator
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