Awk is a data manipulation programming language that exists within UNIX, similar to grep or cut. It is useful for extracting text and quick processing of tabular data. Awk works by processing data one ...

Have you ever had to parse a file line by line and do operations on it? Don't answer that - I know you have. awk is a wonderful little command line utility purpose-built for parsing and doing ...

In the world of Linux, the command line is an incredibly powerful tool for managing and manipulating data. One of the most common tasks that Linux users face is processing and extracting information ...

In Unix terms, this news is akin to Moses appearing and announcing an amendment to the 10 commandments. AWK, a programming language for analyzing text files, is a core part of the Unix operating ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

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 ...

There are way too many books about the Linux/Unix operating system to list here many of them very good, but directed towards different learning styles and levels. This list includes books that I use, ...