We aren’t doing the next generation of Linux and Unix admins any favors by forgetting init scripts and fundamental tools I happened across a post on Reddit by chance, asking about textfile ...

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 ...

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Using awk to perform simple numerical calculations is easier than you might imagine.

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.

Some of my earliest excitement about learning Unix was seeing how tricks like this could save me so much time and effort. This good old command displays the first field in the colon-separated ...

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 ...