Showing you how you can leverage the AWK power in less than 80 characters to perform useful tasks.
So, this is exactly the purpose of this article. Sometimes for writing relatively complex programs, but also because of the powerful one-liners you can write to solve issues with your data files. While sometimes discredited because of its age or lack of features compared to a multipurpose language like Perl, AWK remains a tool I like to use in my everyday work. It is part of the POSIX standard and should be available on any Unix-like system.
The AWK command dates back to the early Unix days.
