• awk: when perl is just too big
• awk == Aho, Weinberger & Kernighan
• awk '{command }' filename
• awk '{print $1, $2}' myfile
• or, pipe things to it:
  ls -al| awk '{print $5}'
• usernames and UIDs from /etc/passwd: awk -F: '{print $1,$3}' /etc/passwd
• so...what does the -F do?
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