If I am going to maintain the script myself and never tweak anything in the middle of the night, sure.

But most people don't know awk. And awk requires more awareness. I break my awk when I fix things when tired.

I love awk too but most people don't know much of awk. Better use regular things and keep awk for whenever you absolutely need it.

I like cut and tr too, but I try to replace them by sed and awk when I can. I reduces the number of moving parts, and allows you to increase the complexity slowly.

Ex: | sed -e step1 becomes | sed -e step1 -e step2 instead of adding another pipe and another "moving part" like tr

Better solution: sixel-gnuplot

Shameless plug: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot

Thanks, I will try that.

If you like it, share your terminal configuration!

mlterm works.

mintty had a regression, 3.1.0 may have fixed that