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 ...

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 ...

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 for ...

The awk command is a versatile text-processing tool in Linux. It filters and manipulates files using patterns, conditions, and actions. It supports a wide range of scenarios, making it straightforward ...

It is. I've converted a few machines here in just the last few months, even one where the HD was so shot full of holes only the recovery partition made it onto the replacement SSD and I wound up ...