> Why not just start with perl which does more than sed/awk while using > similar syntax (if you want)?
This is why:
awk '/^[[:space:]]*word/ {print}' logfile
vs
perl -ne 'if (/^\s*word/) { print $_; }' logfile
Which syntax is likely to be easier to remember?
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