The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that real programs can be and are written using the AWK programming language. When I first started working with UNIX, going back 10 years now, no one I ...

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 ...

Every Linux system comes with a dictionary file: a huge list of words in your language. This "words" file is useful for spell-checking, but you can put it to use in many different ways. Learn more ...

We aren’t doing the next generation of Linux and Unix admins any favors by forgetting init scripts and fundamental tools ...

Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests.