Comments on: Awk Tutorial: Understand Awk Variables with 3 Practical Examples

By: Chris F.A. Johnson

Chris F.A. Johnson — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:25:27 +0000

You don’t use awk to sort a file; use the corect tool, sort.

By: Chris F.A. Johnson

Chris F.A. Johnson — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:23:23 +0000

boo.
“If you have an awk script that you don’t want anyone to be able to understand, just rewrite it in perl”
— Ed Morton in comp.unix shell

By: how to sort a line using awk

how to sort a line using awk — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:15:53 +0000

I want to sort and remove a huge data file with respect to delimiter.

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By: boo

boo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:17:53 +0000

awwww(k), people should really be using perl(*)

(*) Or other appropriate, but modern, interpreter. python, whatever pleases you.

By: S.RAGHU

S.RAGHU — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:15:50 +0000

Thanks Chris. Sorry for the slip up.

By: Chris F.A. Johnson

Chris F.A. Johnson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:15:48 +0000

There is no substring function; the function is substr().

By: S.RAGHU

S.RAGHU — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:38:59 +0000

$0 refers to the whole line of input data.