Awk: Hack the planet['s text]! (Presentation)

Thank you for this lesson!

Very cool

Small nitpick, just for fun (!)

You said in the talk that NR is number of processed records. But that would mean that for the first record it would be zero. But it is one. So, it’s more like an index of the current record, starting from one, as humans do

This was awesome! I'm so impressed by this wonderful presentation that I'm going to take the recommendation and buy that extremely expensive book.

what is the name of the book your talking about? "the awk book" i could not find however i did find the "awk programing language" is that the book your talking about?

if you installing/administering the server you surely have the needed permissions to install any programming language you want.
yeah maybe learning awk is useful if your typical use case is hacking netbsd routers (not yours), but in 99% of cases using awk just because it's more unix like is overated. on windows installing awk is more difficult than installing python or perl. writing in posix shell or awk does not give you any benefits apart of the ability to run it on like very old HP mainframe, or locked down BSD/unix-like system. for anything else just use modern language.

Thank you very much for intro to AWK, great job. Appreciate it.

terrible screen terring.....

Thank you, thank you and thank you! Job well done, I no longer need to review O'Reilly AWK book!

I'm 12 minutes into this video and I haven't seen much of anything that would actually run on the command line.

This is perhaps the most useful video on awk I've ever seen. Great job.

AWK is awesome, when you need to bulk filter/reformat/parse text...

Very nice introduction to awk. Thanks a lot for your effort to compile it in a video

You didn't explain what fields or columns are when you needed to. Are they separated by whitespace? You never bother to define it and it is clearly absolutely critical for anyone to understand what follows.

Simply superb!

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Thanks a lot. Great stuff!

I tried reading books about AWK , You did an excellent job covering almost all features ... Thank You :)

WOW !!! - At probably every example I stopped the video and quickly tried stuff out and explored it further - that's a very informative video Ben; Really good and interesting... A big thank you :-)

Hi from HN. Just finished your exercises after watching the Presentation video.
Thank you for doing this. I reckon I fit right in with your target audience as someone who often has to drop into the command line.
I'd always been intimidated by `awk` but now feel further empowered with even just the basics acquired from the video and exercises. The approach was great.

gg. Thanks for the lesson

Great stuff. Learn a lot. Awk is really useful! The exercises are great, too.

For everyone watching: The screen corruptions are only temporary and fixed by the author during the talk.

Thank you for the presentation Benjamin. It is really well done and very informative.

Great video! I've always just used the simple idiom of `$ cat somfile.txt | awk '{ print $1 }'`, etc. and never realized what you could do. I'm sure I'll use it for some more sophisticated tasks instead of python in the future. Thanks!

Thank you for introducing me to AWK with this video! I just wrote my first AWK program! It converts an XML file into a YAML fixture that is used to import contents into a database.