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1y ago

I wrote an interactive TUI app that gives a brief tour of the `GNU awk` command for beginners

TUI-apps/AwkTutorial at main · learnbyexample/TUI-apps

Let me know your feedback, especially if you haven't learned awk yet!

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At an old place of work, someone wrote an awk script that parsed strings using regex from a CSV file, and it generated JavaScript code automatically. It was ~5000 lines of awk script, it was beautiful. I understood it after a couple of weeks, I was in charge of maintaining it, super interesting.
Really cool, use it sometimes but never understood it really. It is so useful to get strings from whatever file you want
- Yeah, really, I only know awk '{ print $SOME_COLUMN_NUMBER }', nothing else.
It's strange to me people refer to the awk command rather than the AWK language.
pipx is also a good way to install a virtualenv and link up any executables that the package exposes.
Edit: So installation would be:
pipx install awktutorial
And it would automatically make the executable available to the user as long as pipx's bin directory is in the user's PATH.