Understanding Enough Awk to Search Piles of Files and Text

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	Understanding Enough Awk to Search Piles of Files and Text (start.jcolemorrison.com)
	7 points by colemorrison 2532 days ago

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Thanks for this article. What I learned from this was that you can use a word as a field separator - it simply never occurred to me to do that.

The article is a great introduction to `awk`, but I can't help but bring up UUOC's, or Useless Uses of `cat`: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html