Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
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Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
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Re: Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
#2Whenever somebody says "Oh, I don't know how to use awk", this is the link I send them. It's easily the most useful tutorial for awk on the 'net. There's a lot more you can do with awk, but this site shows you the top percentage in a very short amount of time.
Re: Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
#3Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893302
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#4This is an excellent blog post. I will refer people to this! He touches on all of the important points.
If you want a more thorough/deep exploration of Awk, I recently gave a talk on it (virtually) at Linux Fest Northwest (LFNW) 2020.
Awk: Hack the planet['s text]! Part 1 (Presentation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43BNFcOdBlY
Awk: Hack the planet['s text]! Part 2 (Exercises):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UGLsRYDfo8
If you want to try your hand at the exercises, they are on github: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet
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#5I learned awk from the chapter on filters in the pamphlet sized book 'unix programming environment' by Kernighan and Pike you can buy for $8
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#6Every time I set out to use awk for some one time task I struggle to express what I need and end up saying fuck it and fire up vim and do exactly what I want with some quick macros.
Am I the only one?
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#7Every time I set out to use awk for some one time task I struggle to express what I need and end up saying fuck it and fire up vim and do exactly what I want with some quick macros. Am I the only one?
I usually say duck it and dust off my shiny Perl necklace
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#8bwk talking about awk, C, etc: https://youtu.be/Sg4U4r_AgJU
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#9This is a great intro; I have the GNU Awk user's manual bookmarked because there are a lot of features in gawk you will only rarely use but are quite useful.
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#10So, I don't use awk right now. This answers "how to awk" more than "why use awk" for me (understandable given the 20 min claim).
Does anyone have concrete, practical examples of use cases where awk made your life much easier?