This repository provides a collection of examples illustrating how to use Awk for text processing and data manipulation.

Awk is typically pre-installed on most Linux distributions. You can verify its installation by running awk --version in your terminal.

For Windows users, this repository includes a Dockerfile to set up a Linux container where Awk is available.

Steps to create and run the Docker container:

1. Open PowerShell.
2. Navigate to the directory containing the Dockerfile.
3. Run the provided PowerShell script to build and execute the Docker container:

./rundocker.ps1

The src folder contains sample scripts and data files for testing. You can generate CSV files using Excel or similar programs and then process them with Awk scripts.

To run an Awk script, navigate to the directory containing your script and execute it using the command below:

awk -f script_name.awk input_file.csv

Windows uses the carriage return and line feed (\r\n) as a newline character, while Unix/Linux uses just the line feed (\n). If your AWK script was created or edited in a Windows environment, you'll need to convert these line endings to Unix/Linux format for it to run correctly on Unix-like systems.

sed -i 's/\r$//' your_script.awk