Shell Data Processing - Awk (grep and sed) - Output filtering

The awk command is a filter that combines the functions of:

• grep
• and sed

AWK is a (tool|language) for event-based data processing.

http://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/gawk_13.html

Linux - ls (List directory content) with only acl information.

ls -l | grep pls.txt |  awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $4}'

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With the free command:

[[email protected] ~]$ free | grep Mem | awk '{print $7}'

137329856

[[email protected] ~]$ free

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:    1058964444 1011201796   47762648          0    1272644  137329872
-/+ buffers/cache:  872599280  186365164
Swap:    101023736       4392  101019344

Example on how to escape the :

awk '{print $1"\:"$2}'

• Documentation reference - The GNU Awk User’s Guide