AWK One Liners

Command

Description

awk'{printFNR"\t"$0}'filename

Printlinenumbersusingatabinsteadofaspace

awk'{print$NF}'filename

Printthelastfieldofeachlineofthefile

awk'END{printNR}'filename

Countthelinesinafile.Justlike"wcl".

awk'/Apache/{n++};END{printn+0}'filename

TotalthenumberoflinesthatcontainthenameApache

awk'{sum+=$6}END{printsum}'filename

Addupthenumbersof6thfield,printthetotal

awk'$4~/^[09]/{print$3}'filename

Ifthe3rdfieldstartswithanumber,printthatfield

awk'{sub(/[\t]+$/,"");print}'filename

Deletethetrailingwhitespacefromendofeachline

awk'{gsub(/^[\t]+|[\t]+$/,"");print}'filename

Deleteleadingandtrailingwhitespacefromeachline

awkF:'{print$1""$2}'filename

Printthefirst2fieldswithaspacebetweentheoutput

awk'{tmp=$1;$1=$2;$2=tmp;print}'filename

Swapthefirst2fields

awk'NR<=5'filename

Printthefirst5linesofafile

awk'END{print}'filename

Printthelastlineofafile

awk'{$1="";print}'filename

Removethesecondfieldineachlineandthenprintit

awk'{sub(/^/,"");print}'filename

Insert6blankspacesatbeginningofeachline

awk'{sub(/^[\t]+/,"");print}'filename

Deletetheleadingwhitespace(spacesortabs)fromfront

RegularExpressions
awk'/regex/'filename

Printthelinesmatchingtheregularexpression

awk'!/regex/'filename

Printthelinesthatdon'tmatchtheregularexpression

awk'/regex/{printx};{x=$0}'filename

Printthelinebeforetheregularexpressionmatch

awk'/regex/{getline;print}'filename

Printthelineaftertheregularexpressionmatch

awk'/Dog/,/Cat/'filename

Printlinesbetweenthematchesstartingoneandending

awk'!/pet/{gsub(/dog/,"cat")};{print}'filename

Substitute"dog"with"cat"onlinesthatdon'tcontainword"pet"

awk'length<50'filename

Printthelineslessthan50characters

awk'NR==20,NR==30'filename

Printthelines20through30

awk'NR==50{print;exit}'filename

Printtheline50

Substitution
awk'{gsub(/dog|cat|bird,"pet");print}'filename

Find/replacedog,catorbirdwithpetandprint

awk'{gsub("dog","cat",$0);print>FILENAME}'*.txt

Find/replacedogwithcatineveryfilewithextensiontxt

Counting
awk'/virtual/{n++};END{printn+0}'filename

Printthetotalnumberoflinesthathavethenamevirtual

psaux|awk'/program_name/&&!/awk/{print$2}'>kill

Findaprogrambynamefromprocesslistingthatisnotawkand
killit

awk'{print$7}'logfile|sort|uniqc|sortrn|grep"\.jpg"|head

Useawktopulltheseventhfieldofeachlineofthelogfile.Sort
thefieldsthenfindtheuniquefieldsandcountthem,doareverse
sortonnumericcount,filteroutanythingbutJPEGfilesandonly
givemethetop10ofthatlist.uniquehostnamesorurlsfroma
logfile

Numbering
awk'{printFNR"\t"$0}'files*

Precedeeachlinewithnumberfortheline