Earthly ➤ https://earthly.dev/youtube In this video, we delve into the powerful command line tool, awk, and showcase its exceptional capabilities for parsing and analyzing data. Whether you're a data enthusiast or a programming novice, awk can revolutionize the way you handle and process files, text, CSVs, and TSVs. We provide a comprehensive introduction to awk and gawk, focusing on practical applications like leveraging field separators, using awk in shell pipes and one-liners, and employing if-else logic and begin-end blocks. Specifically, we demonstrate how to use awk for sorting data, running totals and aggregates, column slicing, and advanced text processing. By mastering awk's features, you can create specialized tools tailored to your specific data analysis needs. Throughout the video, we guide you step-by-step on using awk for data analysis. We cover essential topics such as installing awk, the fundamental "print" command, working with sample data, and understanding field separators. Additionally, we explore the power of awk's pattern-matching capabilities using regular expressions, and we demonstrate how to enhance output using the "printf" function. To take your awk skills to the next level, we provide scripting examples that showcase the flexibility and versatility of this incredible tool. By the end of the video, you can create your own awk scripts for various tasks tailored to your specific needs. For those interested in diving deeper into awk, we highly recommend the book "The AWK Programming Language." Written by the creators of awk, this acclaimed resource offers an in-depth exploration of the programming language, making it an invaluable companion on your journey to mastering awk. Don't forget to subscribe, like this video, and leave your comments below to let us know your thoughts and any questions you may have! ➡️ Earthly: https://earthly.dev/ ➡️ Subscribe: null 📒 Links 📒 The AWK Programming Language [Book]: https://ia803404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf Article version of this tutorial: https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/ 📒 Chapters 📒 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - Install Awk 01:05 - Awk print 04:51 - Awk Sample Data 06:28 - Printing Book Data 06:58 - Field Separators 07:56 - Awk Pattern Match With Regular Expressions 13:54 - Awk printf 15:27 - Begin and End 18:50 - Awk Scripting Examples 22:25 - Is Mockingjay Bad? 26:28 - Awk if else 32:55 - Summary 33:54 - Sorting 📒 About Earthly 📒 Earthly is a command line tool that simplifies build processes, especially for complex projects involving multiple programming languages. It helps manage communication between different languages, making builds easier to manage. If you want to streamline your build processes and work with multiple languages, Earthly can help. Website: https://earthly.dev/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/earthlytech Subscribe: null