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I wrote an interactive TUI app that gives a brief tour of the GNU awk command for beginners (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago by learnbyexample@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Let me know your feedback, especially if you haven't learned awk yet!

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[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 12 points 7 months ago

At an old place of work, someone wrote an awk script that parsed strings using regex from a CSV file, and it generated JavaScript code automatically. It was ~5000 lines of awk script, it was beautiful. I understood it after a couple of weeks, I was in charge of maintaining it, super interesting.