The Command Line is a powerful tool for processing data. With the right combination of commands, you can quickly and easily manipulate data files to extract ...

If you’ve already read my first post about awk, thanks for reading this one too! If not, that’s probably a better place to start.

The other day, I was watching Bryan Cantrill’s 2018 talk, Rust, and Other Interesting Things, and he made an offhanded comment while discussing values of different programming languages and communities. He said, “If you get the awk programming language manual…you’ll read it in about two hours and then you’re done. That’s it. You know all of awk.”