Advanced Filters: awk
Sunil Kumar Singh · 2021
Awk is a convenient and expressive programming language that allows easy manipulation of structured data and creation of formatted reports. This chapter briefs you about the awk programming language and how you can use it effectively, like gwk features, awk program structure, how to write awk program, and its execution. Further, you will see various tools to generate formatted output, widely known as fancier output, after performing the desired computation over given inputs. This chapter also provides many standard commands and built-in functions like text handling, arithmetic functions, string function, and in-time function. You will find some key examples to explain the awk features that make your learning very interesting and informative.