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Is anyone using awk? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Studying and awk came up.

Spent about an hour and I see some useful commands that extend past what "cut" can do. But really when dealing with printf() format statements is anyone using awk scripts for this?

Or is everyone just using their familiar scripting language. I'd reach for Python for the problems being presented as useful for awk.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't tend to use awk in scripts as I do tend to do them in Python, but I do use awk on almost daily basis in one-liners.

Probably the most common thing for me is so I can read a config file without annoying comments and big line spaces.

grep -v "^#" krb5.conf | awk NF

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, but I heavily use perl still... I feel like you can't really call yourself a Linux person without knowing perl and python both. Knowing awk can't hurt though.

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[–] eestileib -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Perl kinda killed awk and sed.

Then python kinda killed perl.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

Just use awk and when needed ask ChatGPT for the syntax of the command

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