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Glossary: Computer Hardware Basics

awk

Also written: NR, -F,

A small tool that picks lines and fields out of text. In awk -F, 'NR > 1 && $3 < 16' office.csv, -F, splits fields at commas, $3 is the third field and NR is the line number.

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CSV