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Tutorial11: Sed & Awk Utilities

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INVESTIGATION 2: USING THE AWK UTILITY
'''Perform the Following Steps:'''
# Issue Change to your '''home''' directory and issue a command to '''confirm''' you are located <br>in your ''home '' directory.<br><br>
# Issue the following linux command ('''copy and paste''' to save time):<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">wget <nowiki>https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~murray.saul/uli101/cars.txt</nowiki></span><br><br>
# Issue the '''more''' command to quickly view the contents of the '''cars.txt''' file.<br>When finished, exit the more command by pressing the letter <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">q</span><br><br>The "'''print'''" action (command) is the <u>default</u> action of awk to print all selected lines that match a pattern.<br>This action (contained in braces) can provide more options such as printing specific fields of selected lines (or records) from a database.<br><br>
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