Linux AWK

By Prof Kannan Moudgalya - Principal Investigator of Spoken Tutorial Project | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Learners enrolled: 17753

This course comprises 11 audio-video spoken tutorials, using which you can self-learn Linux AWK with ease.

STEP 1-

First read this sheet. https://spoken-tutorial.org/Linux-AWK-Instruction-Sheet-English.pdf/

This sheet explains how to learn from spoken tutorials.
This sheet also mentions some important information about the text editors while coding, how to use the Code Files, how to do the Assignments, etc.
Read this sheet carefully and make a note of all the information, before you begin.

STEP 2-
Follow the side-by-side learning methodology while learning from spoken tutorials - watch the video, listen to the instructions, pause the video, try out the command on your system. You should get the exact same results as shown in the video. If successful, proceed with the video. Else, rewind and watch the video again and replicate the commands shown.

Complete all the videos in the given sequence one by one.
The Assignment for each tutorial is for your self-assessment only. Do not upload it anywhere for evaluation.

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	Self Paced
Category :	Computer Science and Engineering Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	1
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate

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Introduction to Linux AWK

Linux AWK is a language for processing text files. AWK is typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. It consists of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data for purposes of extracting or transforming text, for eg: producing formatted reports. The language uses the string datatype, associative arrays, and regular expressions.

AWK was created at Bell Labs in the 1970s and its name is an acronym derived from the surnames of its authors—Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan.

In this series, we would mainly concentrate on how to use the wide variety of AWK commands of Linux, to handle files, directories, processes etc. These tutorials are created using Ubuntu version 16.04 and above. Please see the associated text box of individual spoken tutorials on the website to decide the versions of Linux OS to which it is applicable.

The Spoken Tutorial effort for Linux AWK is being contributed by Antara De, Praveen S and Nancy Varkey.

Learners: Polytechnic/UG/PG computer hardware students and system administrators can learn how to use the wide variety of AWK commands of Linux, to handle files, directories, processes etc.

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