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How to Use Flow Control Statements in Awk – Part 12


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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, that is one after the other. But in certain…

How to Write Scripts Using Awk Programming Language – Part 13


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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 as Shell, is also an interpreted language,…

How to Allow Awk to Use Shell Variables – Part 11


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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 from the shell to Awk operations. This can be done…

Learn How to Use Awk Built-in Variables – Part 10


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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 Awk, these are; user-defined variables, which we covered…

Learn How to Use Awk Variables, Numeric Expressions and Assignment Operators – Part 8


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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 string filtering in Linux. Starting with this…

How to Read Awk Input from STDIN in Linux – Part 7


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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 series, we shall look at few examples where you can filter the output of…

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