How has AWK evolved from that point?

The GNU extensions in gawk I mentioned earlier have added complexity while one of the purposes of mawk was to speed things up. Other than that, because of faster hardware, speed is often less of an issue today than it was when AWK was written in the 1970s. How important is AWK to Linux users?

What specific uses will Linux users find for the language and its utilities? AWK is down and dirty and very easy to use. Perl will do most of the things that AWK will do and more, but it is more complex.

I have used AWK for years and still use it. AWK is appropriate for simple line-oriented editing and reporting tasks. It is useful for processing records output from a database.

AWK is one of the original Unix tools and is frequently used in combination with other utilities such as sed and sort. What are your top five Linux commands that you think all Linux users should be familiar with but may not know about? That is a hard question because it doesn't tell me what the users are doing and I do ... more.

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