A clever awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string.

The awk programming language often gets overlooked for Perl, which is a more capable language. Out in the real world, however awk is found even more ubiquitously than Perl. It also has a smaller ...

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Code to do the same things is possible in perl, python, and other more full-featured scripting languages but not as terse. awk one liners are a staple of interacting with a unix/linux command prompt.

In an earlier article ("GNU Awk 4.0: Teaching an Old Bird Some New Tricks", published in the September 2011 issue of Linux Journal), I gave a brief history of awk and gawk and provided a high-level ...

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required ...

I should hope not. "Unix experience" implies you know how to get stuff done using tools common to most Unix-likes, like sed, grep and awk covered in this article.