Tadeáš Vintrlík

Why awk? I had decided to write this because I feel the language is quite unkown or underrated considering it’s usefulnes. In my opinion it is one of the best things to come out of UNIX and is essentialy omnipresent and yet underutilised. It is essentisentially a very advanced text filter (like grep or sed) and therefore integrates perfectly with the usual UNIX workflow. I personally believe the lack of knowledge of awk is why people say that bash scripting is not good for data processing. While for more advanced tasks Python, R or other are certainly a better choice; for simple, especially ad-hoc data processing awk is invaluable. ...