Syntax awk <options> ‘Program’ Input-File1 Input-File2 … awk -f PROGRAM-FILE <options> Input-File1 Input-File2 … If no Input-File is specified then `awk’ applies the Program to “standard input”, (piped output of some other command or the terminal. Typed input will continue until end-of-file (typing `Control-d’) Basic functions The basic function of awk is to search files […]
One of the most useful utilities in the UNIX systems resources directory is the find command. System administrators use this powerful utility frequently. Here are a few common tasks performed by the ubiquitous find command. I’ll add more as time goes on. # cd /export/home/esofthub Find a file or directory# find . -name TEMP -printor# […]
The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu open a terminal window and run the commanddpkg-query –show –showformat=’${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n’ | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk ‘{printf “%.3f MB \t %s\n”, $2/(1024), $1}’ That will sort the packages by size, putting the largest ones […]