Category: Awk

AWK: Print header line and pattern match

by Sahil Suri | Oct 25, 2017 | Awk | 0 |

AWK is a powerful regular expression filtering and pattern matching scripting language. Please consider heading to awk tutorials section to read through our other awesome AWK tutorials which deep dive into different aspects of...

AWK Scripting: Learn AWK Built-in variables with examples

by Surendra Anne | Apr 24, 2013 | Awk | 0 |

AWK inbuilt variables: FS, OFS, RS, ORS, NR, NF, FNR, FILENAME AWK is supplied with good number of built-in variables which come in handy when working with data files. We will see each AWK built-in variables with one...

AWK Scripting: How to define awk variables

by Surendra Anne | Apr 24, 2013 | Awk | 1 |

AWK variables: This is our ongoing tutorials on AWK scripting. As we mention earlier AWK is a full pledged language with all statements, arrays, control structures, functions etc. Today we will see how to define a variable in...

AWK scripting: 10 BEGIN and END block examples

by Surendra Anne | Feb 27, 2013 | Awk | 0 |

BEGIN and END statements are help full in displaying information before and after executing actual AWK script. BEGIN block Uses: Declaring variables. Initialization variables for doing increment/decrements operations...

AWK scripting: 8 AWK printf statements examples

by Surendra Anne | Feb 20, 2013 | Awk | 1 |

This is our third post on AWK scripting. In this post we will cover printf statement which very much use full for formatting output as the padding spaces before and after the column entries etc. Already covered topics in this...

AWK scripting: 14 AWK print statment examples

by Surendra Anne | Feb 18, 2013 | Awk | 0 |

In our last post we covered about AWK and how is it useful. In this post we will see different print statement examples. We will learn AWK print statement with examples as print statement is one of the most...

AWK scripting: What is an AWK and how to use it?

by Surendra Anne | Feb 16, 2013 | Awk, SED | 0 |

This is our first post on AWK, in this we will see some of the basic stuff of AWK like history, advantages syntax and how it works etc.1. A brief history about AWK2. Advantages and disadvantages of AWK3. AWK syntax4. How AWK...

Shell script: How to add multiple sequence numbers

by Surendra Anne | Dec 17, 2012 | Awk, Bash | 0 |

This can be acheived in many ways. Through for loop Write a for loop using {}(know more about {} HERE) to mention the range of numbers and use let command to add those numbers. Below is the script which will uses for loop to add...

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My name is Surendra Kumar Anne. I hail from Vijayawada which is cultural capital of south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I am a Linux evangelist who believes in Hard work, A down to earth person, Likes to share knowledge with others, Loves dogs, Likes photography. At present I work at Bank of America as Sr. Analyst Systems and Administration. You can contact me at surendra (@) linuxnix dot com.