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awk

2020-09-28

This short byte introduces you to awk, a language for working with text on the Unix/Linux command-line. awk allows you to quickly slice, dice, and filter the text from any command, allowing some pretty sweet workflows.

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šŸ•° Timeline

00:00 - What is awk?
00:28 - Filtering with awk and regex
00:48 - Default action: print $0
00:55 - Printing individual columns
01:22 - BEGIN blocks and output field separators
01:38 - Working with /etc/passwd
02:15 - Field separators
02:30 - Filtering with awk and numerical comparisons
02:40 - Standard library: toupper and length