Unix

Notes

• Awk, like Sed, is a programming language designed for dealing with large bodies of text. But while Sed is used to process and modify text, Awk is mostly used as a tool for analysis and reporting. (source)

• Sed is for search and replace; Awk is for programatically handling and processing lines

• awk is good for tabular data

  • Splits lines into "columns" (like a table)

Links

• Unix Sed Command to Delete Lines in File - 15 Examples

• Basic vs Extended (GNU Grep 3.7)