Ok, even though hasn't been ported as an awk extension under gawk, will POKE [1][2] with command line pipe do (perhaps with enough sed, too)?

[1] : https://www.gnu.org/software/poke/

[2] : https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2019/talks/gnu-poke-an-extensi...

awk system() makes possible to avoid being BASH'ed.

Hmmm aWk!

When appropriate, don't pass up opportunities to ingest Gawk [1]!

edit: especially since unicode support allows for use of native Klingon fonts.

[1] https://www.startrek.com/database_article/gagh