awk

Pattern scanning and processing language

commandText Processing File Content Scripting

Overview

A versatile programming language for working on files, useful for pattern scanning and processing. It excels at text manipulation and report generation.

Syntax

awk [OPTIONS] 'program' FILE...

Examples

$ awk '{print $1}' file.txt

Print the first field of each line in file.txt.

cat

Concatenate and display file content

grep

Print lines matching a pattern

less

Opposite of more; view file content paginated

head

Output the first part of files

tail

Output the last part of files

sed

Stream editor for filtering and transforming text

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