This guide takes a tour of some of the best command-line tools that are used for searching matching strings or patterns in text files. These tools are usually used alongside regular expressions – shortened
All along from the beginning of the Awk series up to Part 12, we have been writing small Awk commands and programs on the command line and in shell scripts respectively. However, Awk, just
When you review all the Awk examples we have covered so far, right from the start of the Awk series, you will notice that all the commands in the various examples are executed sequentially,
When we write shell scripts, we normally include other smaller programs or commands such as Awk operations in our scripts. In the case of Awk, we have to find ways of passing some values
As we uncover the section of Awk features, in this part of the series, we shall walk through the concept of built-in variables in Awk. There are two types of variables you can use
In Part 8 of this Awk series, we introduced some powerful Awk command features, that is variables, numeric expressions and assignment operators. As we advance, in this segment, we shall cover more Awk features,
The Awk command series is getting exciting I believe, in the previous seven parts, we walked through some fundamentals of Awk that you need to master to enable you perform some basic text or
In the previous parts of the Awk tool series, we looked at reading input mostly from a file(s), but what if you want to read input from STDIN. In this Part 7 of Awk
In this sixth part of Awk series, we shall look at using next command, which tells Awk to skip all remaining patterns and expressions that you have provided, but instead read the next input
All along, we have been looking at simple expressions when checking whether a condition has been meet or not. What if you want to use more then one expression to check for a particular