Exercise 4: Starting with awk Scripts

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“The 10 Days of awk

“Our “10 days of awk” tutorial series is in full swing. This awk
short-course includes tutorials, videos and exercises which are
rolled out each day in an effort to help admins use awk more
confidently.

* Exercise 1: Learning awk Basics
* An awk Example – Checking Processes for Memory Use
* Exercise 2: Learning awk with Operators
* Exercise 3: Using awk with Print and Printf
* Exercise 4: Starting with awk Scripts
* Download The awk One Liners PDF
* Exercise 5: Managing the Structure of the awk file

Exercise #4: Starting with awk Scripts

“Awk scripts allow you to create a script that could be reused
and enter a path into a file or execute it from the command line.
When you access the file use the “-f” option to indicate the
file.”

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