Comments on: Awk Introduction Tutorial – 7 Awk Print Examples

By: Kalim

Kalim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:03:41 +0000

Very gud information for beginners. Thanks

By: Sudhanshu

Sudhanshu — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:00:24 +0000

The article is simply awesome!!!

By: nails carmody

nails carmody — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:08:22 +0000

I know it’s late, but …

#!/bin/bash

awk ‘ {
# skip the first two lines
if (NR == 1 || NR == 2)
continue

for(i=2; i<=NF; i++)
printf("%s %s\n", $1, $i)
} ' datafile.txt

Nice site! I learned some new things about sed I didn't know.

By: Muslim

Muslim — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:02:05 +0000

hi,

i have the question that how to using print command “awk” to sort or transpose this data from many coloums to 2 columns only
#input file
NAME JAN FEB MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY
——- —– —— ———- ——– —— ——- ——
BEN 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 6,500 7,500 9,000
YONG 4,000 5,500 6,000 5,800 7,000 8,000 8,5000

# output should be as below.
BEN 5,000
BEN 6,000
BEN 7,000
BEN 8,000
BEN 6,500
BEN 7,500
BEN 9,000
YONG 4,000
YONG 5,500
YONG 6,000
YONG 5,800
YONG 7,000
YONG 8,000
YONG 8,5000
Anyone can help.thanks
@muss

By: Marija

Marija — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:03:55 +0000

I have read few geekstuff articles until now, explanations provided are the best I have ever seen so far! Great job Thanks a lot

By: AWK Vs NAWK Vs GAWK

AWK Vs NAWK Vs GAWK — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:03:56 +0000

[...] you are new to awk, start by reading this Awk introduction tutorial that is part of the Awk tutorial [...]

By: liju

liju — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:05:14 +0000

good simple article

By: kernelkid

kernelkid — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:48:54 +0000

very simple and easy to understand, thanks a lot, it help me a lot

By: Bhagyaraj

Bhagyaraj — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:38:57 +0000

Hi,

Good,
Please try teach in Youtube to try differntly.
It will be more success.

Keep it up,
I need to take an exam on awk, let me see how much I can successed.

By: kalandar

kalandar — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:58:13 +0000

Hi,
I found this article to be very useful. Anybody who wants to know what an awk is , this will give a fair idea. Looking forward to similar articles on other topics of unix.

Thanks