Revision as of 01:31, 19 July 2021

A scripting language originally designed for manipulating tables, and simple cli tools.

Notes

gawk usage

gawk variables

gawk datatypes

gawk conditionals

gawk loops

gawk print

gawk matching

gawk subprocess

References

http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Awk_by_Example,_Part_1

http://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/gawk_7.html

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-AWK is a scripting language that was originally designed for manipulating tables and
+A scripting language originally designed for manipulating tables, and simple cli tools.
-presenting them in human-readable formats. It is useful on the commandline, I'd prefer
-to use a more powerful language than awk than use it for scripting.
-{{ WARNING |
-There are two main variations of the unix coreutils (Gnu/BSD), each has different parameters etc.
-If you are expecting to use awk across different platforms, make no assumptions.
-}}
 = Notes =