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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.

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