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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?
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
May I interest you in the command
killall? 😁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.
True, then I would personally run
pgrepfirst, thenkillall. 😊