Jan 182011
Awk has always been for me a source of great hatred and love, isan incredibly powerful command with which it is possible to build real programs.
In this article I will give you 6 examples ready for use with your preferred terminal.
AWK is a data driven programming language designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. It is an example of a programming language that extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions.