Awk

Awk is pretty ancient (1977) but is a nice tool to know for text processing. I’m no expert, but I do use Awk from time to time for various simple tasks. A second edition of The AWK Programming Language is coming out in October and it looks interesting based on what I read through on O’Reilly. This article shares some of the highlights including a chapter on data analysis and an updated simple version of Make in Awk.

I like to take notes in Simplenote to capture the steps I take on any projects that I do. Today, I was doing an install for a little project that I’m working on (which might be a future topic if it comes to anything) and wanted to capture the recent history of the command lines I had used in a format that I could just copy and paste into my notes.