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.
Released: 2019-07-25. Duration: 00:20:13. Flag: Clean.
Tags: awk,option,help,arg.
Klaatu demonstrates two ways to add a --help message to your awk scripts
Released: 2019-07-09. Duration: 00:42:44. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Gnu Awk, advanced features.
Winding up the Gnu Awk series
Released: 2019-05-30. Duration: 00:31:56. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility, Awk Language, gawk, redirection.
Redirection of input and output - part 2
Released: 2019-05-20. Duration: 00:22:37. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility, Awk Language, gawk,redirection.
Redirection of input and output - part 1
Released: 2019-05-02. Duration: 00:06:21. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: bash,linux,cli,command-line,awk.
In this episode, I discuss how to deal with fix-width field text files using Awk
Released: 2018-08-08. Duration: 00:07:39. Flag: Clean.
Tags: tip,awk,shebang.
This is a tip about awk scripts.
Released: 2018-08-03. Duration: 00:34:10. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility, Awk Language, gawk, arrays, sorting.
Advanced use of arrays
Released: 2018-05-17. Duration: 00:28:06. Flag: Clean.
Tags: bash, linux, awk.
In part 11 of the series, we string and number built-in functions
Released: 2018-04-09. Duration: 00:42:15. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility,Awk language,gawk,arrays.
More about arrays in Gnu Awk
Released: 2018-01-29. Duration: 00:32:36. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: awk,bash,Linux,command line.
In part 9 of the series, we discuss the printf function
Released: 2017-12-06. Duration: 00:20:39. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility,Awk language,gawk,loops.
More about loops
Released: 2017-07-07. Duration: 00:21:11. Flag: Clean.
Tags: bash, linux, awk.
Looping in Awk explained by a sleep-deprived host
Released: 2017-03-01. Duration: 00:39:39. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility, Awk language, gawk, regular expression.
Looking more deeply into Awk's regular expressions
Released: 2016-12-15. Duration: 00:39:54. Flag: Clean.
Tags: awk, bash, command-line, cli.
In this episode, I describe how to use regular expressions with Awk.
Released: 2016-11-16. Duration: 00:31:09. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility, Awk language, gawk,variables.
Recapping the last episode and looking at variables in an Awk program
Released: 2016-10-19. Duration: 00:31:04. Flag: Clean.
Tags: awk,bash,linux.
In this episode, I go into more advanced topics for the awk tool.
Released: 2016-09-29. Duration: 00:26:38. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Awk utility, Awk language, gawk, text manipulation.
We examine how Awk works, records and fields, printing and program files
Released: 2016-09-08. Duration: 00:22:30. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: awk,bash,linux.
An introduction the the awk text parsing tool