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 ...

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal JournalBot Aug 30, 2021 Jump to latest Follow Reply ••• ...

Code to do the same things is possible in perl, python, and other more full-featured scripting languages but not as terse. awk one liners are a staple of interacting with a unix/linux command prompt.

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 ...

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I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required ...