Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things

Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by qwertywert_ on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:11PM (#33360751)

The only thing I use AWK for is getting at columns from output, (possibly processing or conditionally doing something on each) what would be the next big use-case?

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by 5e92cb50239222b on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:20PM (#33360874)

I use it frequently to calculate some basic statistics on log file data.

Here's a nice example of something similar: https://drewdevault.com/dynlib

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by yls on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:45AM (#33368091)

I have used it to extract a table to restore from a MySQL database dump.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by sargstuff on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:12AM (#33372383)

awk autonoma theory and oop the results. add unicode for extra tics!

Scripted cholmskey grammar ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar ) to unleash the power of regular expressions.

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