Some Awk scripts to generate documentation from Markdown-formatted comments in source code. The d.awk script creates documentation for languages that use /* */ for multiline comments, like C, C++, ...

There are many fancy tools for generating changelogs based on ones git commit history, but I wanted one that was dead-simple to use and not dependent on runtimes like Nodejs, Python, etc. Since AWK ...

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

I use awk all the time, but generally only to conveniently pull a particular field out of data that I’m workin with. Regardless of the separator used, awk makes it easy to extract just what you need.

The awk programming language often gets overlooked for Perl, which is a more capable language. Out in the real world, however awk is found even more ubiquitously than Perl. It also has a smaller ...