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 ...

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...

Both the Windows and Linux operating systems include applications that would be useful for either operating system. Unfortunately, to use Linux programs in Windows, you would typically need to find ...

In an earlier article ("GNU Awk 4.0: Teaching an Old Bird Some New Tricks", published in the September 2011 issue of Linux Journal), I gave a brief history of awk and gawk and provided a high-level ...

While other scripting languages have gained popularity, Perl remains a popular choice due to its robust text processing ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell. One of the strengths of the Windows Subsystem for ...

Wow. It’s amazing we ever made it out of the 20th century. It’s like reading about farmers who would plow by hand. I remember the epiphany (long time ago) of discovering how awk solved my problem of ...