This talk will look at using the awk tool to process files, simplifying text processing.
Speaker
Malcolm Hutchison
Agenda
18:00 Networking and Refreshments
18:30 Talk
19:30 Q&A
20:00 End
Synopsis
awk is a specialised programming language designed to process text files. Solutions that may take several lines of code in other languages can be expressed in a couple of lines in awk eg. calculate the mean of a file of numbers can be done in 2 lines of awk.
Like many standard Unix programs it is a useful tool in a user's toolbox.
This talk will cover how to write awk programs, and demonstrate some interesting uses.
About the speaker
Malcolm Hutchison has been playing with computers since his primary school got a ZX Spectrum in 1984.
He has a degree in Computing Science from Aberdeen University, and a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from Heriot-Watt University. Malcolm has been using Unix since 1991 and is happiest on the command-line, considers vim as a friend, and use to consider g++ as his favourite game.
Since 2017, Malcolm has taught computer science at Aberystwyth University. Previously he has taught at Queen's University, Belfast, and Ulster University.
He has also been employed as a software engineer, and as a systems administrator. Outside of computing, Malcolm's interests includes science fiction, football, and eating chocolate.
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