Understanding Enough Awk to Search Piles of Files and Text

7 points by colemorrison 6 years ago | 2 comments

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.

lemcoe9 6 years ago |

The article is a great introduction to `awk`, but I can't help but bring up UUOC's, or Useless Uses of `cat`: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html

I_complete_me 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.

lemcoe9 6 years ago |

The article is a great introduction to `awk`, but I can't help but bring up UUOC's, or Useless Uses of `cat`: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html