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AWK useful examples

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Example 1. AWK print function
Example 2. AWK print specific field
Example 3. AWK’s BEGIN and END Actions
Example 4. AWK fields variable ($1, $2 and so on)
Example 5. AWK built-in variables
Example 6. AWK fields comparison >

Self-contained AWK scripts example

The best way to learn AWK is probably looking at some examples in a given context, let us create file data.txt file which has the following content:

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Months	Water	Gas	Elec	Phone
Jan	647	2851	3310	1200
Feb	287	3544	25500	1000
Mar	238	3212	21900	1710
Apr	468	6986	35000	2000
May

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Course Introduction

Project 1: Analyzing the 'US News' University Ranking Data

Project 2: Facebook Data Mining

Project 3: Australian Cities Crime Statistics

Project 4: Shakespearean-era plays and poems data mining

Bash Tutorials

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AWK Tutorials

SED, GREP and Find Tutorials

Beyond the Text Files! Enter into the Big Data Landscape - Concepts

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AWK useful examples

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