GitRanks3d ago
Awk’s codebase hit a record high at 37.6 M (up from 33.5 M) even as its contributor count dipped from 857 to 793. #Awk #github
Show threadTim Chase4d ago
@finner I invite you to share questions if you have 'em…some of us love #awk and enjoy a good challenge 😁
SP⟁CED GO⟁T4d ago
Dude. Wtf. I was just looking at the #awk guide and I now know like 0.00001% of awk and in like 2 seconds I just figured out how to do something I failed to do after more than an hour attempting with grep.
Show threadottO5d ago
@finner everytime someone starts to learn #awk @bcantrill gets a diet coke
SP⟁CED GO⟁T6d ago

Coming to learn better the differences between #grep #awk and #sed.

Learning that my frustration with grep is that I misunderstood what its (at least base and intended) function is, and I've been trying to make it do things that are much more suited to things like sed and awk.

Time to learn some awk.

Show threadTim ChaseMay 20

@finner

I"m a big fan and post about #awk frequently¹, blog about it occasionally², and hang out in r/awk too. The hashtag is also worth following if you aspire to use it more.

@barubary

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¹ https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/search?q=awk+from%3Agumnos&type=statuses

² https://blog.thechases.com/categories/awk/

³ https://www.reddit.com/r/awk/

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Show threadTim ChaseMay 20

@barubary @finner for an #awk version:

awk '/^\//{s=0}/wifi$/{s=1}s && $1=="Powered"{print $NF; exit}'

(if there's more than one wifi device and you want *all* of the Powered= values rather than just the first wifi device, you can remove the "; exit")

AskUbuntuMay 20

Sort lines in one text file by order of matching part in another file #commandline #grep #sed #awk #sort

https://askubuntu.com/q/1566983/612

Sort lines in one text file by order of matching part in another file

I have two text files, one with a list of sample names like this: 51234_SampleName 52345_SampleName 53456_SampleName 54567_SampleName And the other with the same names but truncated and in a

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Show threadOriel Jutty May 20

@finner Here's a solution using perl instead:

perl -wlne 'if (m{/wifi} ... m{^/}) { print $1 if /\bPowered = (\S+)/ }'

(Translation to awk is left as an exercise for the reader.)

#perl #awk

marocddotMay 15

As a long time #Forth, #Lisp, #Lua, #Awk and #C programmer, I really shouldn't be having this much fun coding in #Oberon (#Oberon-07 to be specific).

It reminds of old school Forth (particularly Eforth): Here is a minimally viable program language (fully described in a handful of pages); don't get hung up on abstraction and libraries:... work on the problem.