This section describes various useful AWK commands and their usage. We will be using the two sample files, cars.dat and emp.dat, for illustrating various useful AWK examples to kick-start your journey with AWK. Most of these examples will be short one-liners that you can include in your daily task automation. You will get the most out of this section if you practice the examples with us in your system while going through them.
Printing without pattern: The simplest AWK program can be as basic as the following:
awk { print } filename
This program consists of only one line, which is an action. In the absence of a pattern, all input lines are printed on the stdout. Also, if you don't specify any field ...
