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This topic is about AWK - Pretty Printing. So far we have used AWK's print and printf functions to display data on standard output. But printf is much more powerful than what we have…

This topic is about AWK - Output Redirection. So far, we displayed data on standard output stream. We can also redirect data to a file. A redirection appears after the print or printf statement.…

This topic is about AWK - User Defined Functions. Functions are basic building blocks of a program. AWK allows us to define our own functions. A large program can be…

This topic is about AWK - Built-in Functions. AWK has a number of functions built into it that are always available to the programmer. This chapter describes Arithmetic, String, Time,…

This topic is about AWK - Loops. This chapter explains AWK's loops with suitable example. Loops are used to execute a set of actions in a repeated manner. The loop…

This topic is about AWK - Control Flow. Like other programming languages, AWK provides conditional statements to control the flow of a program. This chapter explains AWK's control statements with…

This topic is about AWK - Arrays. AWK has associative arrays and one of the best thing about it is – the indexes need not to be continuous set of…

This topic is about AWK - Regular Expressions. AWK is very powerful and efficient in handling regular expressions. A number of complex tasks can be solved with simple regular expressions.…