The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...

which are all right there waiting for me to access them if only i had the string parsing knowledge. Can anyone suggest to me what might be the easiest way to parse these out. I've tried looking around ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...