Find field 7 = bash without grep # awk -F: '$7 ~ /bash/' /etc/passwd _mbsetupuser:*:248:248:Setup User:/var/setup:/bin/bash REF: https://www.ubuntupit.com/useful-awk-command-in-linux-and-bsd/ --- Find/replace all "-" with "&" in ls -l but 1st column only, leave filename alone REF: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/String-Functions.html REF: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/y6g6ep/i_wanna_replace_something_in_the_output_of_the/ Linux: ls -l |awk '{gsub(/-/, "\&",$1)}1' drwxr&s&&x 2 dave 1001 4096 Jun 28 10:04 bin drwxr&xr&x 34 dave dave 4096 Oct 17 23:59 squid-reports OSX: ls -l |awk '{gsub(/-/, "\\&",$1)}1' # needs double-escape for some rsn --- REF: https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/y8yibd/newbie_question_how_to_extract_the_first_columm/ # 1 2 3 gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin awk -F: '{ if ($3 >= 1000 && $3 <= 60000) { print $1 } }' /etc/passwd --- REF: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/z27zft/csv_manipulation/ awk split on multiple chars tmp="S202491,surname, firstname,fname202@email.com,Cyber Security" $ echo "$tmp" |awk -F'[,@]' '{ print $4","$4"@"$5","$2","$3 }' ^ chars contained in [] fname202,fname202@email.com,surname, firstname --- REF: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28905083/how-to-sum-a-column-in-awk add numbers (sum) awk -F',' '{sum+=$4;}END{print sum;}' testawk.txt $ tar tzvf zfs-2.1.7.tar.gz |head #1 2 3 4 5 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 855 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-arch.m4 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 5722 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-compiler-options.m4 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 148 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-cppcheck.m4 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 211 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-parallel.m4 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 2235 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-python.m4 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 3675 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-pyzfs.m4 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 539 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-sed.m4 -rw-r--r-- 0 buildbot buildbot 370 Dec 1 18:07 zfs-2.1.7/config/always-shellcheck.m4 # sum up file sizes in tar for size after extract tar tzvf zfs-2.1.7.tar.gz |awk '{sum+=$5;}END{print sum;}' 65756349 # REF: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249116/how-to-use-awk-to-format-numbers-with-a-thousands-separator # commasep tar tzvf zfs-2.1.7.tar.gz |awk '{sum+=$5;}END{print sum;}' |LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 awk '{ printf("%'"'"'d\n", $0) }' 65,756,349 # allin1 tar tzvf zfs-2.1.7.tar.gz |LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 awk '{sum+=$5;}END{printf "%'"'"'d\n", sum;}' 65,756,349 ---