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ufo on Sept 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understanding Awk

One thing that I would love to hear about is suggestions of how to make my files/output more awk-friendly.

adamgordonbell on Sept 30, 2021 | [–]

This isn't your question but if your files are CSV, there is a CSV extension for gawk

    @include "csv"
    BEGIN { CSVMODE = 1 }

tejtm on Sept 30, 2021 | [–]

Tab separated values all the things

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