Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal JournalBot Aug 30, 2021 Jump to latest Follow Reply Aug 30, 2021 Replies: 491 ...

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 ...

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 is a pattern-scanning and processing language that searches one or more files for records (usually lines) that match specified patterns. It processes lines by performing actions, such as writing ...

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...

A key point to these tools (from a practical point ) is that they are very memory efficient and allow work on just a "line".