AWK programs can be run from the command line or from within a shell script. Here are some ways to run AWK programs:
– Running AWK from the command line: To run an AWK program from the command line, you can use the `awk` command followed by the AWK program enclosed in single quotes. For example, to print the second field of a file, you can use the following command:
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awk '{ print $2 }' file.txt
– Running AWK from a file: You can also save your AWK program to a file and then run it using the `-f` option. For example, if your AWK program is saved to a file called `program.awk`, you can run it using the following command:
` awk -f program.awk file.txt
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– Using AWK in a shell script: AWK programs can also be incorporated into shell scripts using command substitution. For example:
#!/bin/bash
count=$(awk 'BEGIN { count=0 } /pattern/ { count++ } END { print count }' file.txt)
echo "Found $count occurrences of pattern"
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In this example, the AWK program is enclosed in backticks (` `) or `$()` to execute it and capture the output. The output is then assigned to a variable `count`, which is used later in the script.
– AWKrunning in a pipeline: AWK is often used in combination with other Unix utilities in a pipeline. For example, you can use AWK to extract specific fields from a file, and then use `sort` or `uniq` to further process the output. Here is an example:
cat file.txt | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c
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In this example, we use `cat` to print the contents of the file to standard output, then use AWK to extract the second field of each line. We then use `sort` to sort the output, and `uniq -c` to count the number of occurrences of each unique value.
When running an AWK program, you can also specify various options and arguments to modify the behavior of the program, such as the input file(s), field separator, and output format. Refer to the AWK documentation for more information on available options and arguments.