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Revision as of 12:27, 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.
user@host: $ cat test-data.txt 1 11 21 2 12 22 3 13 23 4 14 24
Print only columns 1 and 2 of the datafile
user@host: $ cat test-data.txt| gawk '{print $1,$2}'
1 11
2 12
3 13
4 14
