awk

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Introduction: This is the first post in my bite-sized learning series. In this series we...

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Awk & Sed lessons for noobs. Using The UNIX School for reference - bjpcjp/awk-sed-lessons

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Introduction Hey there! As a Linux user, you might have heard about the powerful AWK...

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An Awk tutorial by example. Learn practical Awk incantations in just a few minutes.

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While dealing with big genetic data sets I often got stuck with limitation of programming languages in terms of reading big files. Also so...

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“Do people really write these long, convoluted commands?” In a word: yes.

--> awk and sed tutorials: awk: awk - Read and split file contents awk - Passing arguments or shell variables to awk awk - Match a pat...

The other day, I was watching Bryan Cantrill’s 2018 talk, Rust, and Other Interesting Things, and he made an offhanded comment while discussing values of different programming languages and communities. He said, “If you get the awk programming language manual…you’ll read it in about two hours and then you’re done. That’s it. You know all of awk.”