Tag: awk

In this tutorial I will show you some useful awk uses.

Determine Line Number

This will find the line number of the text_to_find.

lineNumber=`awk '/TEXT_TO_FIND/{print NR}' /file/path/name.extension`

Split Text By Space

If you want to split a word by a space and then select the second one

val='test test2'
echo $val | awk '{ print $2 }'

Split Text By Comma

If you want to split a word by a space and then select the second one

val='test test2'
echo $val | awk -F, '{ print $2 }'