In the world of Linux, the command line is an incredibly powerful tool for managing and manipulating data. One of the most common tasks that Linux users face is processing and extracting information ...

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 ...

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 ...

The awk command is incredibly useful, and you will be surprised at just how powerful and transformative it will make your scripts. Here’s how to get started using it. While I’m not a fan of ...

It is. I've converted a few machines here in just the last few months, even one where the HD was so shot full of holes only the recovery partition made it onto the replacement SSD and I wound up ...

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 ...

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...

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 ...

The awk programming language often gets overlooked for Perl, which is a more capable language. Out in the real world, however awk is found even more ubiquitously than Perl. It also has a smaller ...

The commands below include basic Unix commands such as ls, cat, cp, mv, grep, etc. We will also talk about some of the shortcuts that can help you take control of your operating system faster and in a ...