awk

awk is a scripting language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and it is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems.

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Documentation

• GNU Awk User’s Guide [EN]

• man 1 'awk' [EN]

Syntax

awk [PARAMETER ...] [FILE ...]

Parameters

-F SEPARATOR, --field-separator SEPARATOR

Use SEPARATOR for the input field separator (the value of the FS predefined variable).

Examples

Get the FQHN using nslookup

nslookup 'xeon' | awk --field-separator ':  *' '/Name/{print $2}'

Output:

xeon.raysoft.loc