# AWK technical notes | Volodymyr Gubarkov

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## What Jamie wrote

Many (most?) users of `awk` just copy and paste something into a command line with a bunch of pipes, cross their fingers, and hope it works. It turns out `awk` is one of those endlessly fascinating rabbit holes. 🕳️🐇

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- [WT333: Weekly Thing 333 / Gemini, LangChain, Illusion](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/333/), Briefly

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