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6 Text Filtering Uses for the Linux awk Command

The awk command is a versatile text-processing tool in Linux. It filters and manipulates files using patterns, conditions, ...
Linux Journal

Real Programming with AWK

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that real programs can be and are written using the AWK programming language. When I first started working with UNIX, going back 10 years now, no one I ...
Linux Journal

An Introduction to awk

The awk programming language often gets overlooked for Perl, which is a more capable language. Out in the real world, however awk is found even more ubiquitously than Perl. It also has a smaller ...
Ars Technica

Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code

A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their friend's US visit was going ...