From update and upgrade to touch and nano (or vi / emacs ), there are tons of Linux commands that are typically run together. That’s where chaining comes into play, as it lets you add a couple of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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