awk

CLI

Pattern-scanning and text-processing language.

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Installation

aptsudo apt install gawk

License

GPL-3.0

AI Agent Notes

Column-based text processing and pattern matching

When to use

Extracting columns, computing sums, reformatting tabular text

Examples
  • awk '{print $1}' file.txt
  • awk -F',' '{sum+=$2} END {print sum}' data.csv

Proven Recipes

Print specific column from output🟢 99% success
command | awk '{print $2}'
Sum a column of numbers🟢 97% success
awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}' file.txt
Filter rows by condition🟢 97% success
awk '$3 > 100' data.txt
Parse CSV and print column🟢 96% success
awk -F',' '{print $2}' data.csv