AWK

Intro to Awk - Field Processor & Reporter

• Discuss features and benefits
• Explain general usage syntax
• Print full lines from input
• Print desired fields from input
• Match patterns using RegExes
• Control the input field | column delimiters
• Save output

Awk - Scripts

• Discuss features and benefits
• Explain structure of Awk scripts
• Implement BEGIN and END blocks
• Parse system files using Awk script

Awk - Variables

• Discuss features and applications
• Enumerate and discuss key Awk system variables
• Increment counters based on matched patterns using Awk
• Explain variable concatenation
• Explore arrays (lists of values)
• Create arrays using the split function

Awk - Operators

• Discuss features and applications
• Explore Boolean and Relational operators
• Discuss looping strategies
• Evaluate conditional testing using system variables
• Evaluate results

Awk - Process Records

• Discuss features and benefits
• Define and evaluate multiple input field separators with files with mixed delimiters
• Normalize output by controlling the Output Field Separator (OFS)
• Extract records from system file and evaluated
• Account for number of processed and matched records in END block

Awk - Print Formatting

• Discuss features and applications
• Compare and contrast 'print' and 'printf' output formatting
• Discuss 'printf' supported data types
• Evaluate 'printf' application in reporting
• Awk & Sed - Various Examples
• Discuss features and applications
• Parse and cleanup HTML and PHP files with Sed & Awk
• Replace values in system file with Awk
• Evaluate results

Awk & Sed - Win32

• Discuss features and benefits
• Download and install Awk & Sed for Win32
• Transfer Linux files to Windows
• Test various parsing and substitution on Linux files
• Evaluate results

Sed - File Name Transformations - Batch

• Enumerate poorly-named files for transformation
• Identify key replacement strings for regular expressions match
• Define and apply regular expressions for transformations
• Transform prefixes and suffixes
• Evaluate results

Awk - E-Mail Address Parsing

• Generate sample data set
• Define regular expressions patterns for transformation
• Transform sample data
• Evaluate results