Awk Command in Linux: A Practical Guide with Real Examples

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A practical guide to the awk command in Linux, covering real-world examples for sysadmins: parsing logs, extracting columns, summing data, filtering output, and building quick reports from the command line. continue reading.
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This is the stuff! Something for programmers. I guess that’s me :smile:

awk is as old as the hills and well worth knowing about. Nice concise article. Get those reports formatted!

The example for ‘Print line count per file’ needs some attention though I think:

awk 'END { print FILENAME, NR }' *.log

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