Difference between revisions of "Command Line Examples: gawk"
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In the examples that follow, assume that a file name <code>test-data.txt</code> exists and contains 3 columns of data. | In the examples that follow, assume that a file name <code>test-data.txt</code> exists and contains 3 columns of data. | ||
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Revision as of 12:24, 20 February 2013
gawk
is a powerful stream editor that can be used in command pipelines to perform special functions that do not have a command written for. The easiest use of gawk (and a very common one) is to manipulate the columns in text stream.
In the examples that follow, assume that a file name test-data.txt
exists and contains 3 columns of data.
eigen % cat test-data.txt 1 11 21 2 12 22 3 13 23 4 14 24