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ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<a href="https://tinkerbetter.tube/accounts/vkc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vkc</a> Did anybody else used to write websites using awk or was it just me? 🙂 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebEditing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WWW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

Simon FormanI wrote my first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> code last night. Ooo what a cute program. I can see how it must have been a revelation in it's time.

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄Batman gonna do some text processing on this guy. <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

Space HoboThat <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> script is someone's fork of `guff` ("a plot(1) device") that I've carried around for a while. It takes in columns of numbers on stdin and spits out an SVG plot with reasonable defaults. Damned handy.

Linux MagazineLooking for stats? Pete Metcalfe shows you how to quickly analyze and plot your data with just one line of Bash and tools like AWK and gnuplot <a href="https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/294/Bash-Stats?utm_source=mlm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/294/Bash-Stats?utm_source=mlm</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bash</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tools</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnuplot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnuplot</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stats</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SQL</a>

SlatianHey xdg-shell-linux fedi corner :drgn: I need some eyes on this code here: <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/147" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/147</a><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/awk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/freedesktop" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/xdg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xdg</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/xdgutils" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xdgutils</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/shell" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shell</a>

Open Risk<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23awk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> is a perennial. One of the best tools ever for quick processing of large structured data. Courses at the Open Risk Academy introduce awk in the context of US Agency mortgage data analysis. Caveat: you must obtain your own copy of the data <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23opensource" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://www.openriskacademy.com/course/view.php?id=65" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.openriskacademy.com/course/view....</a>

Simon WolfSince they are shutting down soon, yesterday evening I downloaded my Pocket data and, because I have weird compulsions, decided to use <a href="https://social.sgawolf.com/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> to parse the very simple CSV file into a very simple Markdown file.And then, because my previous, equally niche, AWK post had been oddly popular, I wrote about this new script too: <a href="https://blog.sgawolf.com/post/2025-05-22-pocket-parser" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.sgawolf.com/post/2025-05-22-pocket-parser</a>

awbWhat's useful about Perl is that it fits the Unix tools approach well. You can write quick one-liners and put them in a pipeline. You then gradually enhance functionality until you arrive at a standalone script. Like Shell. Like AWK. Ruby is kind of like that as well. Python is not.This doesn't mean the opposite works equally well. The bare minimum to turn a language's REPL into an interactive Shell is I/O redirection and pipelines without much extra syntax.<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shell</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ruby</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a>

NoGoo.meHey beloved <a href="https://gts.nogoo.me/tags/nogoome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noGooMe</a> users, A quick reminder that you *must* have the proxy image option unchecked when using this <a href="https://gts.nogoo.me/tags/searxng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SearxNG</a> instance. It can be disabled, if you previously had it enabled, browsing to /preferences, then selecting the "privacy" tab and uncheck the "image proxy" switch. It is disabled by default so any first connection to this instance has the proper setting set up. If you do have it enabled, you’ll quickly be blocked at the firewall level by our <a href="https://gts.nogoo.me/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> AI agent 🤖 My reason for disabling this feature is that it generates loads of requests from the instance IP to the external engines. And this makes those block us really fast. This means that the engines will have *your IP* logged when you search for images, only. Classical text search are still masqueraded with our instance IP.

Greg KempI'm not mad that VScode doesn't recognize AWK with a built-in format. I'm mad that the VScode marketplace doesn't have an AWK plug-in. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vscode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vscode</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

Jay HannahI blogged how you can see whose Boosts you have turned off: <a href="https://notes.jays.net/blog/mastodon/#whose-boosts-have-you-disabled" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://notes.jays.net/blog/mastodon/#whose-boosts-have-you-disabled</a>Usually I use <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perl</a> for this sort of thing, but in this case <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> is super convenient. 🙂

IIVQI taught myself a new programming language today: <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gawk</a> (<a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>)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: <a href="https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html</a>

Profoundly NerdyWhat is your favorite or most useful one-liner and why? Any tips for improving the readability of one-liner code?<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/sed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sed</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perl</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/rakulang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rakulang</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forth</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ruby</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bash</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shell</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a>

Neil BrownThis 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!<a href="https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

OblomovI mentioned some time ago (<a href="https://sociale.network/@oblomov/113137451504133746" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://sociale.network/@oblomov/113137451504133746</a>) the introduction of <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/sparklines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparklines</a> in the in the index pages of my website. I've now refined the procedure and even wrote a small <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> script to do the thing:<a href="https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/sparkling-wok-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/sparkling-wok-2/</a>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.

Martin Bishop“The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perl</a> language, developed by Larry Wall in the mid-1980s, is an attempt to combine the capabilities of the shell and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> into a single language... perl is freely available and performs better than combined shell and awk” David G. Korn (of Korn shell), USENIX 1994

Gonzalo Nemmi :runbsd:<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Phraxos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Phraxos</a>A POSIX compliant site generator by <a href="https://merveilles.town/@caffeine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@caffeine</a> Dependencies:A <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#POSIX</a> compliant <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shell</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grep</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> and headThere's so much beauty in this that I'm truly impressed.<a href="https://phraxos.caffeine.computer/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://phraxos.caffeine.computer/</a>

Norman WilsonCongratulation to Arnold Robbins, the primary guy behind <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/gawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gawk</a> (and also helping to look after the One True <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Awk</a>), recipient of this year's <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/USENIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USENIX</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Flame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Flame</a> lifetime-achievement award.

janggolan"When i was in Eng 101 as a freshperson, i thought my prof's <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> in my essay's margin was the sound she made when reading my passage. Come to find out it meant 'awkward' in her lingo." <a href="https://chatainews.blogspot.com/2024/03/human-in-loop.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://chatainews.blogspot.com/2024/03/human-in-loop.html</a>

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