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  • Lydia_K@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.mlIs anyone using awk?
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    1 year ago

    I use awk all the time, nothing too fancy, but when you need to pull out elements of text it’s usually way easier than using cut.

    awk {’ print $3 '} will pull the third element based on your IFS variable (internal field separater, default is whitespace)

    awk {’ print $NF ‘} gets you the last element, and awk {’ print $(NF-1) '} gets you one element from the last, and so on.

    Basic usage but so fast and easy for so many everyday command line things.