# An intro to the great language with the strange name – IBM Developer

<https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-awk1/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I’ve used awk in a copy/paste way not really knowing what was happening under the hood. This is a quick and easy overview. I bet there are a decent chunk of little Python, Ruby, or Perl scripts that awk would do better or as good.

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