12-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by
cfajohnson
The use of awk and grep together is recommended by the authors of the language in their book, The AWK Programming Language:
"If you have to search a big file to isolate a small amount of data, use grep or egrep for the searching and awk for the processing."
In the original post the pipe was from awk to grep
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