AI engineering glossary · Command line Git

What is awk?

awk: A small programming language for processing text in columns. It splits each line into fields, lets you filter lines by conditions and print or total chosen fields, making it ideal for quick reports on delimited files or logs.

Level: advancedTopic: Command line Git

awk: an example

awk '{sum += $3} END {print sum}' sales.txt adds up the third column of every line.

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Where you learn it

awk is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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