cut is actually next to useless, because it cannot understand that multiple spaces can still be a single separator in most text files in /etc. You have to use AWK.
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awk is awesome! I love it, and I do not regret learning how to use it.
That said, my workflow invariably always shifts from starting with awk to do something simply with a tiny one-liner, to then doing that with perl or python, and sometimes even creating a file to make the by-now multi-line scripts more easily readable.
I do not recommend starting with awk, if you do not know other languages already such as Python.
In short, let your intuition guide you.
No, but I heavily use perl still... I feel like you can't really call yourself a Linux person without knowing perl and python both. Knowing awk can't hurt though.
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Just use awk and when needed ask ChatGPT for the syntax of the command