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awk

Overview

  • awk is a data driven programming language for processing text based data

Basics

  • Print every line in a file 
awk '{print}' test.txt
  • Print the lines which contain the given parameter 
awk '/item/ {print}' test.txt
  • Print the first and fourth field with whitespace as the delimeter 
awk '{print $1,$4}' test.txt
  • Display a block of text starting with the word start and stopping with the word stop 
awk '/start/,/stop/' test.txt