Hackaday

Linux-Fu: Making AWK A Bit Easier

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...
Linux Journal

Text Manipulation in Linux: Awk Vs. Sed

The Linux operating system is a powerhouse for developers, system administrators, and enthusiasts alike, offering unparalleled flexibility and control. Central to its prowess is the command line, a ...
Ars Technica

Insert statements, the backtick, awk, arrays and premature baldness. Help Please

I have a file containing a list of entries in the format:<br><br><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">ServerName Date Stuff1 Stuff2 Etc </pre> <br><br>I want to be able ...
Hackaday

Gawking Hex Files

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...
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 ...