Lynda - AWK Essential Training

Lynda - AWK Essential Training

So you've got a large data set. New information is always coming in, and it's messy and inconsistent. Text files, Excel spreadsheets, web forms, email messages, and so on. You'd like to find a way to format it into something clean and consistent you can use in a database, and you'd like to automate that process as much as possible. Enter AWK, a command-line tool for Mac, Unix, and Linux that allows you to manipulate data in powerful ways.

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Introduction

1. What Is AWK?

2. AWK Command Line Basics

3. Understanding Records and Fields

4. Understanding Variables and Operators

5. A Quick Introduction to Regular Expressions

6. Using Control Structures

7. Formatting the Output

8. Functions and Arrays

9. Combining AWK with Other Tools

Conclusion

Table of Contents

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