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# awk

### Overview

* `awk` is a data driven programming language for processing text based data

### Basics

* Print every line in a file

```
awk '{print}' test.txt
```

* Print the lines which contain the given parameter

```
awk '/item/ {print}' test.txt
```

* Print the first and fourth field with whitespace as the delimeter

```
awk '{print $1,$4}' test.txt 
```

* Display a block of text starting with the word start and stopping with the word stop

```
awk '/start/,/stop/' test.txt
```