Source code repo for Ben Porter (FreedomBen)'s free course on Awk (originally a talk at Linux Fest Northwest 2019 and 2020) ...

AWK is one of the most primitive & powerful utility which exists in all Unix and Unix-like distributions. It is used as command line utility for performing a basic text-processing operation and as ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

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 ...

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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The awk command is incredibly useful, and you will be surprised at just how powerful and transformative it will make your scripts. Here’s how to get started using it. While I’m not a fan of ...