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Tim Chase<a href="https://mastodon.social/@spacemagick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@spacemagick</a> does writing cgi-bin/ scripts in <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> count?I've also got a makefile+awk SSG in the works, but it needs a lot more love before it's ready to push into public view (or replace my main SSG)

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<a href="https://tinkerbetter.tube/accounts/vkc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vkc</a> Did anybody else used to write websites using awk or was it just me? 🙂 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebEditing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WWW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

Simon FormanI wrote my first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> code last night. Ooo what a cute program. I can see how it must have been a revelation in it's time.

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄Batman gonna do some text processing on this guy. <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

Space HoboThat <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> script is someone's fork of `guff` ("a plot(1) device") that I've carried around for a while. It takes in columns of numbers on stdin and spits out an SVG plot with reasonable defaults. Damned handy.

Linux MagazineLooking for stats? Pete Metcalfe shows you how to quickly analyze and plot your data with just one line of Bash and tools like AWK and gnuplot <a href="https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/294/Bash-Stats?utm_source=mlm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/294/Bash-Stats?utm_source=mlm</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bash</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tools</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnuplot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnuplot</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stats</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SQL</a>

חנן כהן • Hanan CohenI am using <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a> for only one command. ia tasks | awk -F "identifier" "{s+=(NF-1)} END {print s}"It counts my Internet Archive tasks that are currently running.Now that I have a new computer, I didn't want to install AWK for just one command. I asked Claude to write me the same command for PowerShell. (ia tasks | ForEach-Object { ($_ -split "identifier").Count - 1 } | Measure-Object -Sum).Sum Sad to say goodby to AWK. It was very useful to me three jobs ago.

Thomas TraynorWell those <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bash</a> and <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> scripts that I wrote to check to see if the SFTP server has files for us worked in detecting that files didn't arrive in our expected window. I wish the team responsible would have a tool to monitor when the server has issues... Wait, silly me! They are using a tool (us) so they don't have to buy, install, configure and run such a tool. They assume that the server is working until we send an email that they have problems.Scripts are ugly, but they work and clearly documented on what they do and the parameters. I wrote them so that it is easy to use the script with different parameters for any additional files we need to monitor.

tiagoafpereira 🚲📷⌨️On migrating from Pocket, file conversions and link rot.Learned a few things about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gawk</a> and ended up picking <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> to get it done.<a href="https://tiagoafpereira.net/blog/posts/2025-06-04-migrating-from-pocket/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tiagoafpereira.net/blog/posts/2025-06-04-migrating-from-pocket/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pocket</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linkding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#migration</a>

Tim ChaseTIL that modifying NF in <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> has an instant effect, so if you do$ echo a b c | awk '{while (NF){print $(NF--)}}'the post-decrementing removes the entry before the variable gets accessed, resulting in it printing blanks, so instead you have to access the variable before doing the post-decrement:$ echo a b c | awk '{while (NF){print $NF; NF--}}'to print each item in reverse.Which seems weird given what I understand about how post-decrement is *supposed* to work.(HT: <a href="https://oldbytes.space/@drscriptt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@drscriptt</a> whose <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> sent me down this rabbit-hole of learning)

DrScripttWell I did a thing.I created a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNS</a> zone; .oid, on my DNS server <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OIDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OIDs</a>.I can now easily look up OID values with dig (et al.):% dig +short txt 2.3.7.5.5.1.6.3.1.oid.To look up OIS 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2.I also wrote a one* line shell script to make doing the lookups easier:\dig +short txt $(echo ${1} | awk -F. '{for (C=NF; C>1; C--){printf "%s.", $C}; printf "%s.oid.", $1}') | sed 's/"//g' <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>So I can now run:% oidlookup 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2and get the following output:{iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1) security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) kp(3) id-kp-clientAuth(2)}

Simon WolfSince they are shutting down soon, yesterday evening I downloaded my Pocket data and, because I have weird compulsions, decided to use <a href="https://social.sgawolf.com/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> to parse the very simple CSV file into a very simple Markdown file.And then, because my previous, equally niche, AWK post had been oddly popular, I wrote about this new script too: <a href="https://blog.sgawolf.com/post/2025-05-22-pocket-parser" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.sgawolf.com/post/2025-05-22-pocket-parser</a>

LeJaxCurrently testing <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@stefano</a> 's <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BSSG</a> Seems that I could, with minor mis features, switch from <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hugo</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BSSG</a> May be I will need some <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sed</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sh</a>Need to take notes for a blog post.

PatI wrote a Literate Programming tool in AWK<a href="http://patpatpat.xyz/data/lit/lit.awk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://patpatpat.xyz/data/lit/lit.awk</a><a href="http://patpatpat.xyz/data/lit/example.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://patpatpat.xyz/data/lit/example.html</a><a href="http://patpatpat.xyz/data/lit/example.lit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://patpatpat.xyz/data/lit/example.lit</a>I dogfooded the script: the page and the script itself are generated from a single literate file. The page hopefully explains my thought process. Its a tiny script but feels quite dense!(Feedback welcome)I like using AWK, there is something quite charming and fun about programming within the limitations of PATTERN + ACTION<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/literateprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literateprogramming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

izzyclear;awk -vL=$(tput lines) -vC=$(tput cols) 'BEGIN{srand();for(;;){s="\033[H";for(i=0;i<L;i++){for(j=0;j<C;j++){t=rand();s=s sprintf("\033[%d;%d;%dm%c",t<.2?1:(t<.4?4:0),30+int(rand()*8),40+int(rand()*8),33+int(rand()*94));}s=s"\n"}printf"%s",s}}'behold. awk<a href="https://ieji.de/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openbsd</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bsd</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/clownvomit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#clownvomit</a>

awbWhat's useful about Perl is that it fits the Unix tools approach well. You can write quick one-liners and put them in a pipeline. You then gradually enhance functionality until you arrive at a standalone script. Like Shell. Like AWK. Ruby is kind of like that as well. Python is not.This doesn't mean the opposite works equally well. The bare minimum to turn a language's REPL into an interactive Shell is I/O redirection and pipelines without much extra syntax.<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shell</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ruby</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a>

NoGoo.meHey beloved <a href="https://gts.nogoo.me/tags/nogoome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noGooMe</a> users, A quick reminder that you *must* have the proxy image option unchecked when using this <a href="https://gts.nogoo.me/tags/searxng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SearxNG</a> instance. It can be disabled, if you previously had it enabled, browsing to /preferences, then selecting the "privacy" tab and uncheck the "image proxy" switch. It is disabled by default so any first connection to this instance has the proper setting set up. If you do have it enabled, you’ll quickly be blocked at the firewall level by our <a href="https://gts.nogoo.me/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> AI agent 🤖 My reason for disabling this feature is that it generates loads of requests from the instance IP to the external engines. And this makes those block us really fast. This means that the engines will have *your IP* logged when you search for images, only. Classical text search are still masqueraded with our instance IP.

Greg KempI'm not mad that VScode doesn't recognize AWK with a built-in format. I'm mad that the VScode marketplace doesn't have an AWK plug-in. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vscode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vscode</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a>

Artyom BologovI still can't believe that most programming systems we use today are preoccupied with numbers. AFAIK, half of (R5RS?) <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scheme</a> standard is numbers and operations on them. Same for <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C</a>, <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/CommonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommonLisp</a>, <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Java</a>—ten different types of numbers and huge libraries for them.Humans think in images and words. Structured text-oriented languages feel like a much better fit for everyone not corrupted by C. Yet we have little to no popular attempts in that space. Structured Regular Expressions didn't catch up; <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/ed1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ed1</a> and <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> are considered mere <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/regex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#regex</a> automation tools. Modal and the term rewriting systems have their Merveilles Town, but not much beyond. sh/#bash and the like are quite successful, but aren't considered real programming languages either.Why.<a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theRant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theRant</a>

Jonathan LamotheI am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.I am a <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canadian</a>, fluent in both <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#English</a> and <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a>. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=Haskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Haskell</a> and <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C</a>. I also have a reasonable grasp of <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a>, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JavaScript</a>, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=SQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SQL</a>, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Python</a>, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=Lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lua</a>, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> system administration, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bash</a> scripting, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perl</a>, <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AWK</a>, some <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lisp</a> (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.<a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/search?tag=GetFediHired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetFediHired</a>

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