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Understanding Enough Awk to Search Piles of Files and Text

by colemorrison on 7/18/19, 5:19 PM with 2 comments

• by I_complete_me on 7/18/19, 7:18 PM

  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.

• by lemcoe9 on 7/18/19, 6:42 PM

  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