Awk Tips

Collection of Awk tips and tricks

• 2019-11-01 01:44:13

  Running shell commands with variable assigned parameters

  Awk can take control of pipes instead of piping from a shell process to Awk

• 2019-08-16 19:48:00

  Pattern match against variable value

  TLDR $0 ~ _variable_name { print }

• 2019-08-13 17:05:46

  Hello World in pure Awk

  TLDR use shebang with -f to make file an Awk script, eg. #!/usr/bin/awk -f

• 2019-08-11 23:26:30

  Floating point math

  TLDR awk "BEGIN {print 10 * 4.2}"

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