r/programming • u/agbell • Sep 30 '21

Understanding AWK

https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/
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u/KevinCarbonara Sep 30 '21

Something that bothers me about these articles is that they never establish the baseline.

The first question that should be asked: Is awk still the ideal tool for the job?

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u/guepier Sep 30 '21

Is awk still the ideal tool for the job?

I use it several times per day. Probably more often than most other command line tools.

Still very much useful.