hpr2864 :: One weird trick to add a --help option to your awk scripts hosted by Klaatu
Klaatu demonstrates two ways to add a --help message to your awk scripts
In-Depth Series: Learning Awk
- Number of episodes: 18
- Open/closed: open
- Date of earliest show: 2016-09-08
- Date of latest show: 2019-07-25
- Series RSS feeds: ogg, spx, mp3
Episodes about using Awk, the text manipulation language. It comes in various forms called awk, nawk, mawk and gawk, but the standard version on Linux is GNU Awk (gawk). It's a programming language optimised for the manipulation of delimited text.
hpr2852 :: Gnu Awk - Part 16 hosted by Dave Morriss
Winding up the Gnu Awk series
hpr2824 :: Gnu Awk - Part 15 hosted by Dave Morriss
Redirection of input and output - part 2
hpr2816 :: Gnu Awk - Part 14 hosted by Dave Morriss
Redirection of input and output - part 1
hpr2804 :: Awk Part 13: Fix-Width Field Processing hosted by Mr. Young
In this episode, I discuss how to deal with fix-width field text files using Awk
hpr2613 :: Quick Awk Tip hosted by Klaatu
This is a tip about awk scripts.
hpr2610 :: Gnu Awk - Part 12 hosted by Dave Morriss
Advanced use of arrays
hpr2554 :: Gnu Awk - Part 11 hosted by Mr. Young
In part 11 of the series, we string and number built-in functions
hpr2526 :: Gnu Awk - Part 10 hosted by Dave Morriss
More about arrays in Gnu Awk
hpr2476 :: Gnu Awk - Part 9 hosted by Mr. Young
In part 9 of the series, we discuss the printf function
hpr2438 :: Gnu Awk - Part 8 hosted by Dave Morriss
More about loops
hpr2330 :: Awk Part 7 hosted by Mr. Young
Looping in Awk explained by a sleep-deprived host
hpr2238 :: Gnu Awk - Part 6 hosted by Dave Morriss
Looking more deeply into Awk's regular expressions
hpr2184 :: Gnu Awk - Part 5 hosted by Mr. Young
In this episode, I describe how to use regular expressions with Awk.
hpr2163 :: Gnu Awk - Part 4 hosted by Dave Morriss
Recapping the last episode and looking at variables in an Awk program
hpr2143 :: Gnu Awk - Part 3 hosted by Mr. Young
In this episode, I go into more advanced topics for the awk tool.
hpr2129 :: Gnu Awk - Part 2 hosted by Dave Morriss
We examine how Awk works, records and fields, printing and program files
hpr2114 :: Gnu Awk - Part 1 hosted by Mr. Young
An introduction the the awk text parsing tool