Even after decades of using Unix on thousands of systems, I find that it’s still fun to discover various convolutions of sed and awk commands to perform command line wizardry. There’s a lot more to ...

Awk does a lot more than select a column from a file or an input stream. It can select columns from selected rows. It can calculate totals, extract substrings, reverse the order of fields and provide ...

ITworld.com – One of the more frustrating aspects of learning Unix, or just about any computer language for that matter, is trying to recall the names of unfamiliar commands. This is especially ...