Comparing Awk and Cut. Using AWK in Linux to Replace Cut and Grep
Awk and Cut, which one to use? There is never a single right tool in Linux, choosing the right tool for you is the best. The more you become used to the complex commands the easier they will be to use. Commonly, the cut command will filter fields and then grep to filter the rows we want. We show that using awk we can easily do the same with a single command
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Most of this goes way over my head but I still find so interesting.
Thanks for the video
Good to know, thank you.
Will this work with time stamps? What's the best to filter time stamps
I'm so glad you're not a serial killer. Thanks for the great awk & sed video!