I manage some servers and awk can be useful to filter data. If you use commands like grep, and use the pipe operator (the " | ") command, awk can be very handy.
Sure, a Python script can do that as well, but doing a one-liner in Bash is waaay faster to program.
I manage some servers and awk can be useful to filter data. If you use commands like
grep, and use the pipe operator (the " | ") command,awkcan be very handy.Sure, a Python script can do that as well, but doing a one-liner in Bash is waaay faster to program.