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6 Text Filtering Uses for the Linux awk Command

The awk command is a versatile text-processing tool in Linux. It filters and manipulates files using patterns, conditions, and actions. It supports a wide range of scenarios, making it straightforward ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep

As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and ...
Ars Technica

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

A key point to these tools (from a practical point ) is that they are very memory efficient and allow work on just a "line".
TechRepublic

How to use awk to select data from commands and scripts

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2 ways to remove duplicate lines from Linux files

The first command we’ll examine in this post is a very unusual awk command that systematically removes every line in the file that is encountered more than once. It leaves the first instance of the ...