The Best 4 AWK Alternatives
AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.
If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this in a language such as C or Pascal is a timeconsuming inconvenience that may take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk.
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