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.

That's because awk is actually an entire scripting language, not just a tool—but that's not how we're going to use it, or think of it, as relative newbies. Instead, we're just going to think of ...

Even now, I still frequently use AWK to create backup scripts and the like. Often people think that AWK can be used for only basic text manipulation tasks, such as cutting a column from a file, or for ...