…Congratulations.…You've reached the end of AWK essential training.…I've enjoyed putting together this course and I…actually learned a lot about AWK while I…was doing it, and I hope that you've enjoyed it and learned a lot as well.…Before we go, let me give you a few resources for additional information.…This page, the GNU AWK users guide at gnu.org…is an excellent resource for everything having to do…with gAWK, the GNU version of AWK, which is…the standard version of AWK on most Unix systems today.…This page includes full reference documentation on…every single thing that AWK can do,…including much more than we covered in…this course, and plenty of example programs.…
This is a dynamite resource, and I recommend you bookmark it.…This page here at pement.org is a collection of single line…and otherwise small AWK programs which contain some really intriguing tricks.…And reading it over can be very useful.…And then IBM has provided an AWK by example tutorial…with two parts, part one and part two, which contains…
Author
David D. Levine
Released
5/21/2014In this course, award-winning author and teacher David D. Levine shows you how to use AWK to read and write data in a variety of formats, produce reports, and automate repetitive tasks. He reviews the nuts and bolts of the language, such as field separators, pattern matching, variables, operators, expressions, and control structures; functions available for manipulating data; and integration with other programs like Excel.
- Determine what AWK is.
- Recognize how to write an AWK program.
- Determine how to use AWK command-line flags.
- Identify how to specify field and record separators with variables.
- Distinguish how to change a CVS file to a tab-separated one.
- Break down how to work with operators and arrays.
- Discover how to format output.
- Interpret how to string data with functions.
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome59s
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1. What Is AWK?
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What is AWK?3m 11s
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2. AWK Command Line Basics
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Writing an AWK program2m 51s
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Using AWK command-line flags6m 18s
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3. Understanding Records and Fields
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4. Understanding Variables and Operators
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5. A Quick Introduction to Regular Expressions
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Regular expression basics5m 19s
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6. Using Control Structures
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Building control structures4m 14s
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Creating an HTML table4m 45s
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7. Formatting the Output
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8. Functions and Arrays
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Manipulating strings7m 28s
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Using associative arrays4m 55s
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9. Combining AWK with Other Tools
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Using pipes7m 6s
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Scripting with AWK4m 56s
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Challenge: Perform a join1m 13s
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Solution: Perform a join2m 55s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye1m 10s
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