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I don’t know any programming languages…but I feel like I “get” awk…

Also, this blog post helps with the above. For some reason I like how the author cites technical reviews of the article and email correspondence as references.




Missed opportunity to use one of my favourite words: grok [0].

And congratulations. I’ve been trying for the past year to learn awk, and while I can pretty reliably split text files and extract columns, I’m pretty far from being able to grok awk.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grok


I actually hate it for this purpose, in the book it also means to drink deep and has psycho-sexual connotations.

Why not just say understand and move on?


The book that coined the term was written over 60 years ago. Its usage has evolved since then.




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