Lydia_K, 1 year ago I use awk all the time, nothing too fancy, but when you need to pull out elements of text it’s usually way easier than using cut. awk {’ print $3 ‘} will pull the third element based on your IFS variable (internal field separater, default is whitespace) awk {’ print $NF ‘} gets you the last element, and awk {’ print $(NF-1) '} gets you one element from the last, and so on. Basic usage but so fast and easy for so many everyday command line things.
I use awk all the time, nothing too fancy, but when you need to pull out elements of text it’s usually way easier than using cut.
awk {’ print $3 ‘} will pull the third element based on your IFS variable (internal field separater, default is whitespace)
awk {’ print $NF ‘} gets you the last element, and awk {’ print $(NF-1) '} gets you one element from the last, and so on.
Basic usage but so fast and easy for so many everyday command line things.