Linux
Intermediate
What is Awk?
A powerful text processing language for extracting and manipulating structured data from files or command output.
Awk processes text line by line, splitting each line into fields. The basic pattern is: awk '{pattern} {action}' file. For example, awk '{print $1, $3}' prints the first and third fields of each line.
Awk supports variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, and built-in functions. It excels at processing CSV files, log analysis, report generation, and quick data transformations.