The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

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The Linux expand and unexpand commands can turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs, and the sed and awk commands can help. The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files ...

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...

Can a curious Windows user find a Linux version without command lines, because I can’t find one that has 100% GUI. Is it because of techno snobbery, as in, you’re only allowed in if you learn command ...