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Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

It is. I've converted a few machines here in just the last few months, even one where the HD was so shot full of holes only the recovery partition made it onto the replacement SSD and I wound up ...
Network World

Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...
Network World

Turn tabs into spaces on Linux and vice versa

The Linux expand and unexpand commands can turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs, and the sed and awk commands can help. The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files ...
TechRepublic

How to use awk to select data from commands and scripts

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Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

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 ...