AWK one liners [part one]

AWK was initially developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho , Peter J Wienberger

and Brian Kernighan. And hence the name(AWK) derived from

their respective initials.

AWK was designed basically for text processing and used mostly for

extraction and manipulation of data.

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Lets start with the examples.

1. Print Specific Column from a file

sample file created

awk '{print $1 " " $3}' abc.txt

2. Print all data from a table

awk '{print $0}' abc.txt

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