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Whenever somebody says "Oh, I don't know how to use awk", this is the link I send them. It's easily the most useful tutorial for awk on the 'net. There's a lot
by geocrasher 7y ago
Whenever somebody says "Oh, I don't know how to use awk", this is the link I send them. It's easily the most useful tutorial for awk on the 'net. There's a lot more you can do with awk, but this site shows you the top percentage in a very short amount of time.
- dwoot 7y agoIt's crazy how this reappeared on HN only hours after I went searching for awk on Hacker News. Fred Hebert is so well known in the Erlang and Elixir communities. I have just coined this idea the "gateway drug" approach to learning new tools. We should strive to find those introductions that are small enough that someone can digest without a massive upfront time investment to get them past the front door :)