There are times when you will want to trim some information from the output of a command. This may be because you want to feed that output into another command. Whatever the reason for wanting to manipulate the output, awk is one of many tools available in GNU/Linux to perform this task.
Read more »Command Line Basics: Cut Fields With awk
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Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III
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"This is the third and final part of a three-part article on the famous Awk one-liners. This part will explain Awk one-liners for selective printing and deletion of certain lines. See part one for introduction of the series..."
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Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II
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"This is the second part of a three-part article on the famous Awk one-liners. This part will explain Awk one-liners for text conversion and substitution..."
Read more »10 Awk Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls
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"Hi guys and girls, this is the first guest post on my blog. It’s written by Waldner from #awk on FreeNode IRC Network. He works as a sysadmin and does shell scripting as a hobby. Waldner will be happy to take any questions about the article. You can ask them in the comments of this post or on IRC. This article takes a look at ten tips, tricks and pitfalls in Awk programming language.
Read more »Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I
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"...This is going to be a three-part article in which I will explain every single one-liner in Mr. Pement’s compilation. Each part will explain around 20 one-liners. If you follow closely then the explained examples will turn you into a great Awk programmer..."
Read more »Awk by example, Part 1
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Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
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Perl and Bash Versions Of Binary To Decimal Conversion Script
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Perl and Bash ports of our newbie program to convert binary numbers to decimal. Code written for ease-of-reading, where possible. If you don't script already; start! :)
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Porting Simple Arithmetic In Bash, Perl and Awk
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Translating equivalent arithmetic operations between bash, Perl and awk. Part of an ongoing series on porting code.
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