Hackaday

Linux-Fu: Making AWK A Bit Easier

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, ...
Linux Journal

GNU Awk 4.1: Teaching an Old Bird Some New Tricks, Part II

In an earlier article ("GNU Awk 4.0: Teaching an Old Bird Some New Tricks", published in the September 2011 issue of Linux Journal), I gave a brief history of awk and gawk and provided a high-level ...
Ars Technica

Insert statements, the backtick, awk, arrays and premature baldness. Help Please

I have a file containing a list of entries in the format:<br><br><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">ServerName Date Stuff1 Stuff2 Etc </pre> <br><br>I want to be able ...
Linux Journal

Real Programming with AWK

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that real programs can be and are written using the AWK programming language. When I first started working with UNIX, going back 10 years now, no one I ...
Hackaday

Gawking Hex Files

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...