There are many fancy tools for generating changelogs based on ones git commit history, but I wanted one that was dead-simple to use and not dependent on runtimes like Nodejs, Python, etc. Since AWK ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

The awk command provides a lot more than simply selecting fields from input strings, including pulling out columns of data, printing simple text, evaluating content – even doing math. If you only use ...

Complete re-implement both scripts with much simpler logic, shorter code and pack with more flexible features. It now allows you to add/modify/delete interfaces, as well as add/modify/delete any ...

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

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 ...