I wrote an interactive TUI app that gives a brief tour of the `GNU awk` command for beginners
Let me know your feedback, especially if you haven’t learned awk yet!
pingveno, (edited ) pipx is also a good way to install a virtualenv and link up any executables that the package exposes.
Edit: So installation would be:
pipx install awktutorial
And it would automatically make the executable available to the user as long as pipx’s bin directory is in the user’s PATH.
ericjmorey, 
It’s strange to me people refer to the
awkcommand rather than the AWK language.
Frederic, At an old place of work, someone wrote an awk script that parsed strings using regex from a CSV file, and it generated JavaScript code automatically. It was ~5000 lines of awk script, it was beautiful. I understood it after a couple of weeks, I was in charge of maintaining it, super interesting.
boredsquirrel, Really cool, use it sometimes but never understood it really. It is so useful to get strings from whatever file you want
ewenak, Yeah, really, I only know
awk ‘{ print $SOME_COLUMN_NUMBER }’, nothing else.
aniki, I’m not an awk noob but I’ll definitely play around with this later and let you know what I think! There’s always more awk to learn.
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