I wrote an interactive TUI app that gives a brief tour of the `GNU awk` command for beginners ( github.com )

pingveno , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

pipx is also a good way to install a virtualenv and link up any executables that the package exposes.

Edit: So installation would be:

pipx install awktutorial

And it would automatically make the executable available to the user as long as pipx's bin directory is in the user's PATH.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

It's strange to me people refer to the awk command rather than the AWK language.

Frederic , 1 month ago

At an old place of work, someone wrote an awk script that parsed strings using regex from a CSV file, and it generated JavaScript code automatically. It was ~5000 lines of awk script, it was beautiful. I understood it after a couple of weeks, I was in charge of maintaining it, super interesting.

boredsquirrel , 1 month ago

Really cool, use it sometimes but never understood it really. It is so useful to get strings from whatever file you want

ewenak , 1 month ago

Yeah, really, I only know awk '{ print $SOME_COLUMN_NUMBER }', nothing else.