# Idiomatic awk

<https://backreference.org/2010/02/10/idiomatic-awk/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I have used `awk` in various scripts to do pretty straightforward things. I've always known it to be significantly more powerful than I am familiar and this article does a great job walking through more complex use cases. It is worth reading since there are many things `awk` can do out of the box that folks could easily end up writing their own small Python code for. Much simpler to use the tools that exist!

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## Appears in

- [WT296: Weekly Thing 296 / Awk, Fav, Alarmo](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/296/), Notable

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