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by arendtio 1739 days ago
Learning awk is actually pretty simple. For years I just used the '{print $2}' version to extract fields, but after reading some short book I felt pretty confident of having understood the basics.

Sadly I don't remember which book it was, but this page looks like a good start: https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

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Likely the one by A, W, and K. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451454
Yes, this looks like it. Thanks :-)