The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that real programs can be and are written using the AWK programming language. When I first started working with UNIX, going back 10 years now, no one I ...

The goal here is to remove duplicate entries from the PATH variable. But before I begin, let's be clear: there's no compelling reason to to do this. The shell will, in essence, ignore duplicates PATH ...

Arcane syntax? The parts of Perl's syntax that have given it a bad name either come from it's recycling the syntax of tools like Awk, variable names that I was familiar with from the same tools or ...