What do y'all use awk for really? 20 of using Linux, I've never had to use awk. And I've done a looot of scripting in my days. Anything from building my own clone of polybar using eww (with loads of scripts underneath), to automated systems for bulk handling of student assignments back at uni when I used to help out with grading and such.

What's awk good for that other standard utilities can't do?

[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I use awk instead of cut cause I can remember the syntax better.

ps aux | grep zoom | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can get rid of those greps, btw:

ps aux | awk '/zoom/ && $0 !~ /awk/ {print $2}'

Or just use pgrep.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The greps were much more legible that this concoction 😅

But I second the use of pgrep. 👌

Better yet, just killall zoom.

[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

grep is everywhere, pgrep is not

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

May I interest you in the command killall? 😁

[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The thing with killall is I can't see what it's going to do first. With the greps, I can look first, kill second.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

True, then I would personally run pgrep first, then killall. 😊

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