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The only thing I use AWK for is getting at columns from output, (possibly processing or conditionally doing something on each) what would be the next big use-case?


I use it frequently to calculate some basic statistics on log file data.

Here's a nice example of something similar: https://drewdevault.com/dynlib


awk autonoma theory and oop the results. add unicode for extra tics!

Scripted cholmskey grammar ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar ) to unleash the power of regular expressions.


I have used it to extract a table to restore from a MySQL database dump.




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