I am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.

I am a #Canadian, fluent in both #English and #French. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with #Haskell and #C. I also have a reasonable grasp of #HTML, #JavaScript, #SQL, #Python, #Lua, #Linux system administration, #bash scripting, #Perl, #AWK, some #Lisp (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.

I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.

AWK linux tutorial: Discover a comprehensive guide to mastering text processing and automation on Linux using practical AWK examples and clear tips #AWK, #Linux, #Tutorial

https://teguhteja.id/awk-linux-tutorial-guide-for-beginners/

Do you find awk one-liners cryptic? Stuff like !a[$0]++, 1, $1=$1, NR==FNR and -v RS=? I wrote a blog post to explain such idioms.

https://learnbyexample.github.io/awk-idioms-explained/

How The 'awk' Command Made Me A 10x Engineer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbSpuZVb164

I taught myself a new programming language today: #gawk (#awk)

I'm pretty impressed at how clean and versatile it is.

Also, having a tutorial with very plain HTML-like layout and yellowish background helps enormously: https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html

What is your favorite or most useful one-liner and why? Any tips for improving the readability of one-liner code?

This month, you should use a special-purpose programming language that makes it easy to handle simple data-reformatting jobs.

That's right.

It's.... awktober!

I mentioned some time ago (https://sociale.network/@oblomov/113137451504133746) the introduction of #sparklines in the in the index pages of my website. I've now refined the procedure and even wrote a small #awk script to do the thing:

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/sparkling-wok-2/

The advantage is that this isn't tied to a specific process to get the input data, so I can use it to process any output, not just the one from git log (as I was doing earlier). I can be easily customizable, so can be probably used for other things too.

I wish I understood #awk better.

But what I *do* understand is always pretty helpful. ;)

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Pretty version here, thanks to #GoToSocial and @amin:
https://alpha.polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01J8NT5XC0NGN3VD51H13ZX697

“The #perl language, developed by Larry Wall in the mid-1980s, is an attempt to combine the capabilities of the shell and #awk into a single language... perl is freely available and performs better than combined shell and awk” David G. Korn (of Korn shell), USENIX 1994

Congratulation to Arnold Robbins, the primary guy behind #gawk (and also helping to look after the One True #Awk), recipient of this year's #USENIX #Flame lifetime-achievement award.

"When i was in Eng 101 as a freshperson, i thought my prof's #AWK in my essay's margin was the sound she made when reading my passage. Come to find out it meant 'awkward' in her lingo." https://chatainews.blogspot.com/2024/03/human-in-loop.html