Command-line tool

awk

brew/awk

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Text processing scripting language

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install gawk
scoop install gow

macOS

brew install awk

Linux

brew install awk

Print the fifth column (a.k.a. field) in a space-separated file

awk '{print $5}' path/to/file

Print the second column of the lines containing "string1" in a space-separated file

awk '/string1/ {print $2}' path/to/file

Print the last column of each line in a file, using a comma (instead of space) as a field separator

awk -F ',' '{print $NF}' path/to/file

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