Tag Archives: Awk

Exploratory Data Analysis With AWK

Posted on 2023-10-23 by jcs

This post is about Brian Kernighan and AWK, two things always worth hearing about. All of you, I’m sure, know that after retiring from Bell Labs, Kernighan took a professorship at his Alma Mater, Princeton. Since he’s been there, Kernighan … Continue reading →

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Learn a Little AWK

Posted on 2018-07-06 by jcs

It used to be that almost every programmer was proficient with AWK. When Perl came along, that became less true and now many programmers have never used—or even heard of—AWK. That’s too bad because it’s a tremendously useful tool and, … Continue reading →

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AWK Examples

Posted on 2017-10-26 by jcs

Before Perl and other such scripting languages, there was AWK. AWK is a great language for doing text manipulation chores. It has regular expressions, associative arrays, automatic splitting of input lines into fields, and other features to make working with … Continue reading →

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