|{{Admon/tip|Bash Shell Scripting Tips:|<br><ul><li>'''Using awk to Manipulate Text:'''<br><br>xLegend has it that the '''awk''' command was invented by three C programmers that wanted to create a utility in Unix that had programming syntax more like C programming (awk stands for the first letter in each person's name). People started to use the command and found it very useful for report generation and file repair or manipulation.<br><br>The command mimics a C program (with braces { } that surround the action to perform based on records from a database file matching either test conditions, regular expressions, etc.</li></ul>}}