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Understanding Enough Awk to Search Piles of Files and Text

7 pointsby colemorrisonalmost 6 years ago

2 comments

I_complete_mealmost 6 years ago
Thanks for this article. What I learned from this was that you can use a word as a field separator - it simply never occurred to me to do that.
lemcoe9almost 6 years ago
The article is a great introduction to `awk`, but I can&#x27;t help but bring up UUOC&#x27;s, or Useless Uses of `cat`: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;porkmail.org&#x2F;era&#x2F;unix&#x2F;award.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;porkmail.org&#x2F;era&#x2F;unix&#x2F;award.html</a>