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 ...

The awk command provides a lot more than simply selecting fields from input strings, including pulling out columns of data, printing simple text evaluating content – even doing math.

The awk command is incredibly useful, and you will be surprised at just how powerful and transformative it will make your scripts. Here's how to get started using it.

Conclusion awk and sed are indispensable tools in the Linux command-line toolbox, each with its strengths and ideal use cases. Whether you're performing quick text substitutions with sed or extracting ...

A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their friend's US visit was going ...

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