AWK

AWK (GNU Awk / gawk) is a domain-specific text processing language optimized for searching, extracting, and reporting data from structured text files and streams.

Installation

Install GNU Awk (gawk) on TIDE's Ubuntu system:

apt update
apt install -y gawk

Verification

Check the installed AWK version:

awk --version

Hello World Example

One-Liner Command

Run an inline AWK command:

awk 'BEGIN { print "Hello, AWK!" }'

Script File Example

Create an AWK script file named hello.awk:

cat << 'EOF' > hello.awk
BEGIN {
    print "Hello, AWK!"
}
EOF

Execute the script with AWK:

awk -f hello.awk

Official Resources

Official Website

AWK