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Hi.
I'm new to linux.
I have a question....
What is the difference between BASH Scripting and AWK?
When would I use one over the other?

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Hey there,

In simple terms, bash is a Unix/Linux shell and scripting in it is just like using the shell in a more sophisticated (or readable ;) way. Awk is a standalone utility that you can launch from bash.

Bash can pretty much do anything (if you're creative) but awk is very well suited to rearranging fields and records in a files (I think it was mostly based on this when it first came out. It does have many features that define it now as a programming language, by strict standards)

Hope that helped :)

, Mike

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