Network World

Unix How To: Sed & Awk — Still friendly after all these years

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 ...
Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

It is. I've converted a few machines here in just the last few months, even one where the HD was so shot full of holes only the recovery partition made it onto the replacement SSD and I wound up ...
Network World

Unix How-To: awk is still a very handy tool

Awk does a lot more than select a column from a file or an input stream. It can select columns from selected rows. It can calculate totals, extract substrings, reverse the order of fields and provide ...
Forbes

What Is Awk? What Makes It A More Useful Utility Than Other Shell Utilities?

awk is a programming language optimized for text processing. It takes less code than sed or perl, where the input is field-based. bash and other interactive shells don't have the same capabilities ...
Ars Technica

Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep

As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and ...
TechRepublic

How to use awk to select data from commands and scripts

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