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The Hello world example is as simple as: awk 'BEGIN {print "Hello world"}' The most basic awk program consists of a true value (typically 1) and makes awk echo its input: $ date | awk '1' Mon Jul 25 11:12:05 CEST 2016 Since "hello world" is also a true value, you could a...

If the program is short, you can include it in the command that runs awk: awk -F: '{print $1, $2}' /etc/passwd In this example, using command line switch -F: we advise awk to use : as input fields delimiter. Is is the same like awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{print $1,$2}' file Alternativelly, ...

AWK is string manipulation language, used largely in UNIX systems. The idea behind AWK was to create a versatile language to use when working on files, which wasn't too complex to understand. AWK has some other variants, but the main concept is the same, just with additional features. These other v...