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Let me know your feedback, especially if you haven't learned awk yet!

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[-] Frederic@beehaw.org 12 points 7 months ago

At an old place of work, someone wrote an awk script that parsed strings using regex from a CSV file, and it generated JavaScript code automatically. It was ~5000 lines of awk script, it was beautiful. I understood it after a couple of weeks, I was in charge of maintaining it, super interesting.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago

Really cool, use it sometimes but never understood it really. It is so useful to get strings from whatever file you want

[-] ewenak@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, really, I only know awk '{ print $SOME_COLUMN_NUMBER }', nothing else.

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

It's strange to me people refer to the awk command rather than the AWK language.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

pipx is also a good way to install a virtualenv and link up any executables that the package exposes.

Edit: So installation would be:

pipx install awktutorial

And it would automatically make the executable available to the user as long as pipx's bin directory is in the user's PATH.

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