How to Use Flow Control Statements with Awk Command in Linux | Linux Today

How to Use Flow Control Statements with Awk Command in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Aug 5, 2016

When you review all the Awk examples we have covered so far, right from the start of the Awk series, you will notice that all the commands in the various examples are executed sequentially, that is one after the other. But in certain situations, we may want to run some text filtering operations based on some conditions, that is where the approach of flow control statements sets in.

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Ravi Saive

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