The awk command is a versatile text-processing tool in Linux. It filters and manipulates files using patterns, conditions, ...

AWK (awk) is a domain-specific language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Similar to the Sed and Grep commands, it is a filter, and is a standard ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

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 ...

AWK is a powerful text processing tool available on Linux (and other Unix-like systems). It allows you to manipulate and analyze text, especially structured data such as columns in a file. AWK ...

The awk programming language often gets overlooked for Perl, which is a more capable language. Out in the real world, however awk is found even more ubiquitously than Perl. It also has a smaller ...

Abstract: Most well-known instructional operating systems are complex, particularly if their companion software is taken into account. It takes considerable time and effort to craft these systems, and ...

As a Linux administrator, it is an important job to ensure that access to directories and files is granted to select, trustworthy users. This prevents unintended users from accessing the entirety of ...