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Space Hobo<a href="https://mastodon.social/@timonus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@timonus</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thomasfuchs</a> <a href="https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@joe</a> submitted for the committee's approval <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

ax6761Which "<a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>(1)" other than GNU one does not die & continues to awk when a variable is assigned a string with embedded newline?FreeBSD one, via "onetrueawk" from GitHub currently, dies. <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/bugIsFeature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bugIsFeature</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/workingAsDesigned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingAsDesigned</a># Option is supported at least by "awk(1)" of FreeBSD v14 (v20240422) & GNU (v5.3.1). awk --versioninput="9 7" echo | awk -v arg="$input" '{ print arg }'<a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Tim Chase<a href="https://mastodon.social/@spacemagick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@spacemagick</a> does writing cgi-bin/ scripts in <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> count?I've also got a makefile+awk SSG in the works, but it needs a lot more love before it's ready to push into public view (or replace my main SSG)

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.

JdeBP<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@simontatham</a> Do you run a mile from almost all <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> variants? (-:Those have an escaping deficiency (save perhaps BSD awk where -F takes a regular expression) that almost no-one seems to deal with.Few people realize that /etc/fstab in <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> is actually vis(3)-encoded, meaning that whitespace can never occur as field data, however one must unvis each field to work correctly.There is a very obscure hint to this at the foot of the fstab(5) manual page.<a href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libc/gen/fstab.c#L151" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libc/gen/fstab.c#L151</a><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@ska" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ska</a>

melezhikSee my SO answers as alternative to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>/#sed using amazing <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Rakulang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rakulang</a> regexs and Sparrow tool - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=Raku%2fSparrow&searchOn=3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=Raku%2fSparrow&searchOn=3</a>

Mariette TimmerAwk: Hack the planet['s text]! (Presentation) - 2023 Update<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=E5aQxIdjT0M&si=Cz2fpA_qnFh9F9eN" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=E5aQxIdjT0M&si=Cz2fpA_qnFh9F9eN</a><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

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>

חנן כהן • Hanan CohenI am using <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> for only one command. ia tasks | awk -F "identifier" "{s+=(NF-1)} END {print s}"It counts my Internet Archive tasks that are currently running.Now that I have a new computer, I didn't want to install AWK for just one command. I asked Claude to write me the same command for PowerShell. (ia tasks | ForEach-Object { ($_ -split "identifier").Count - 1 } | Measure-Object -Sum).Sum Sad to say goodby to AWK. It was very useful to me three jobs ago.

unixbhaskarCool !!<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linuxadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linuxadmin</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perl</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tool</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/App::a2p" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/pod/App::a2p</a>

lj·rk @WHY2025Maybe I'm just too tired to find a way for `podlet` to write it's output to multiple files if there are multiple files to generate. E.g., if a compose file would result in multiple quadlet `.container` files.Fortunately, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> is just an amazing tool and let's me write an ultra-simple state-machine to transform podlet's output into multiple files. Use with:``` podlet compose ./path/to/complex.compose | awk -f podlet_stdout_to_files.awk ```The AWK script:``` BEGIN { state="filename" } /^# / { if (state == "filename") { filename=$2; state="unit"; } else { print "unexpected filename"; exit 1; } } /^---$/ { if (state == "unit") { state="filename" } else { print "unexpected end-of-unit marker"; exit 1; } } { if (state == "unit") { print $0 >> filename } } ```Without error handling:``` BEGIN { state="filename" } /^# / { filename=$2; state="unit" } /^---$/ { state="filename" } { if (state == "unit") { print $0 >> filename } } ```

Space Hobo<a href="https://graphics.social/@metin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@metin</a> I see you and raise you <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> on a terminal: <a href="https://github.com/patsie75/awk-demo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/patsie75/awk-demo</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>

Space HoboHey <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/entr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entr</a> fans: are there any examples of a `$ENTR_STATUS_SCRIPT` script out in the wild, or any explanation for what this feature was meant to do? It seems like it could be useful, and I'm a huge fan of <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>, but I can't find anyone explaining what they do with it.

Hacker NewsUsing Awk to find out the FBI was paying scrapers to find Torswats<a href="https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Awk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FBI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scrapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scrapers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TorSwats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TorSwats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a>

tiagoafpereira 🚲📷⌨️On migrating from Pocket, file conversions and link rot.Learned a few things about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gawk</a> and ended up picking <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> to get it done.<a href="https://tiagoafpereira.net/blog/posts/2025-06-04-migrating-from-pocket/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tiagoafpereira.net/blog/posts/2025-06-04-migrating-from-pocket/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pocket</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linkding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#migration</a>

Tim ChaseTIL that modifying NF in <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> has an instant effect, so if you do$ echo a b c | awk '{while (NF){print $(NF--)}}'the post-decrementing removes the entry before the variable gets accessed, resulting in it printing blanks, so instead you have to access the variable before doing the post-decrement:$ echo a b c | awk '{while (NF){print $NF; NF--}}'to print each item in reverse.Which seems weird given what I understand about how post-decrement is *supposed* to work.(HT: <a href="https://oldbytes.space/@drscriptt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@drscriptt</a> whose <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> sent me down this rabbit-hole of learning)

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