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Useful awk examples
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awk_examples.sh
#searches for 'search_term' and prints all columns
awk '/search_term/' file.txt
#searches for 'search_term' and prints columns 1 and 4 separated with tab (the first column is index 1)
awk '/search_term/ {print $1 "\t" $4}' file.txt
#searches for 'search_term' and prints the number of occurances
awk '/search_term/{++cnt} END {print "Count = ", cnt}' file.txt
#print lines having more than 18 characters
awk 'length($0) > 18' file.txt
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