Awk is a data manipulation programming language that exists within UNIX, similar to grep or cut. It is useful for extracting text and quick processing of tabular data. Awk works by processing data one ...

Awk is a powerful languge to manipulate and process text files. It is especially helpful when the lines in a text files are in a record format, i.e., when each line (record) contains multiple fields ...

As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and ...