Network World

Manipulating text with awk, gawk and sed

The “l” at the beginning identifies /usr/bin/awk as a symbolic link. NOTE: Without the commas, the result would be “onetwothree”. Note that gawk allows you to ...
InfoWorld

Remember sed and awk? All Linux admins should

We aren’t doing the next generation of Linux and Unix admins any favors by forgetting init scripts and fundamental tools I happened across a post on Reddit by chance, asking about textfile ...
Ars Technica

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

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required for ...
Network World

Revamping Text Files with awk and sed

The venerable Unix commands awk and sed are the ultimate text-file mixmasters. With these tools you can do useful tasks such as surgically change case, search and replace in multiple files, rearrange ...
Ars Technica

Any sed/awk guru's in the house?

It's tragic when you know _what_ tool to use to get the job done, and you can't for the life of you figure out _how_ to use it.<BR><BR>What I have:<BR><BR>A flat file, tab delimited, with fields 1 ...