Learning Awk Is Essential For Linux Users

One of my favorite command line utilities is "awk" which is a text-processing program. It is mostly used for pattern scanning and processing. In this video, I will give examples of some of the basic awk commands, and show you some of the ways that I often use awk.

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[TecnocraciaLTDA]

AWK is not just a text processing utility, awk is a complete programming language!!

[SPSHOfficial]

At 8min, when you pipe uniq, note that 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent.
You may want to sort the input first, or use 'sort -u' without 'uniq'.
so it would be | sort | uniq OR | sort -u

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DT: AWK is important for linux users
Luke Smith 1 hour later: Why AWK is useless for linux users

[BrutusHiatus]

This is a great tutorial about awk. I've learned quite a bit. The only thing that red flagged me was that NONE of those were square roots. They were squares.

[ecavero]

In the square root example, very time DT said square root, he means square!
Great video, DT!

[JosephSaintClair]

awk is a must. So powerful.
Btw. You actually did just square. Not square root :)

[OscarFURIOUS]

I just came to say that I can see that you listened to the comments and now you are sharing your knowledge on simple but technical stuff that's really helpfull. I apreciate that and also can feel that effort

[jeffcauhape]

That is the most clear demonstration of AWK I have ever seen. Amazing.

[davidruedeman]

Learned more about awk in 20 minutes than in the previous 40 years

[driden]

Had to process a 120k line csv at work the other day. Awk was a god send

[intrepidca]

14:00 - /^[b, c]/ matches anything that begins with a "b" or a "c" *or a comma*.

[RobertGuilman]

Sir, your a wizard with awk, i only knew half of this 😂

[VexisMorlock]

Great TUT. I ran into an issue because I don't use uniq and sort often enough; uniq doesn't work if dupes are not adjacent so you need to sort first.

[tarekrahman]

Glad you made this video. I was stumbling upon awk in everywhere and wanted to learn it but didn't have time to do so. Thanks

[lchl]

This is great, this video arrived just in time since currently I am on problem automating a lot of stuff with bash scripting and using awk for text-processing. Thanks for the content!

[skirnir]

Good introduction to awk. Back in 2013 i had to parse huge log files that had no field separator, even worst each line could be completely different depending on certain conditions. Awk saved my life.

[gwgux]

This is one of the best explanations of awk I've seen! I'll save this one for some people I know that are still just learning Linux.

[OpusFocus]

Thank you Derek I appreciate the time and effort you put into making these videos. You help us "middle users" take things up a notch. Middle as in we are no longer beginners but won't ever be sysadmins. We do however want more out of their Linux system.

[milo_andrs]

Nice, thank you. I am beginning my journey on bash and this is awesome.

[DaveRogersEsq]

Needed a quick refresher on awk as I had no used it in years. This was a great video, covering the essentials. Cheers.