In Unix terms, this news is akin to Moses appearing and announcing an amendment to the 10 commandments. AWK, a programming language for analyzing text files, is a core part of the Unix operating ...

Have you ever had to parse a file line by line and do operations on it? Don't answer that - I know you have. awk is a wonderful little command line utility purpose-built for parsing and doing ...

A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their friend’s US visit was going ...

Good tutorial and reference here for sed: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html and awk: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html Reads as usual from STDIN to STDOUT and ...

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 ...

There are way too many books about the Linux/Unix operating system to list here many of them very good, but directed towards different learning styles and levels. This list includes books that I use, ...