Posts categorized in ‘awk’

If you type echo "Hi\nHow\nHi\nAre\nHi\nYou?\nAre", you will get this in your terminal:

Hi
How
Hi
Are
Hi
You?
Are

Here’s how we can remove the duplicate lines using awk ..

Tiny snippets showing if/else use in awk ..

Some times I would need to define an alias in tcsh which can have optional arguments. tcsh doesn’t seem to support that directly.

Here’s how I solve that problem.

This post shows how to get the current directory name without the preceeding path, using awk or rev+cut or the boring basename.