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March 2, 2022 – 2:00 pm

Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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Solving Crossword Puzzles from CLI

December 4, 2021 – 12:08 pm
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Linux command-line tools provide access to a wealth of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, directories, and other reference sources. Learning to use these tools is a worthwhile endeavor even if solving crossword puzzles is not your favorite …

Passing shell variables to awk and sed

December 2, 2005 – 10:23 am
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By default awk and sed do not expand shell or system variables and do not pass their own variables back to the shell. To use shell variables awk and sed statements must be included in …

Tips To A Healthier Dog

November 19, 2005 – 10:38 pm

Useful awk code snippets for your sysadmin tasks.