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Awk Workshop

Dates 27-28 August 2026

AWK is an interpreted programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.
This two-day workshop aims to promote and demonstrate the flexibility of the tool, where the overhead of more sophisticated approaches and programming languages is not worth the bother.

Objectives

  • use Awk as an advanced grep command, capable of arithmetic selection rules with control over the content of the matched lines
  • perform simple conversions, analysis or filter you data on the fly making it easy to plot or read in your favorite research tool
  • handle and take advantage of data split over multiple file data sets
  • use Awk as a simple function or data generator
  • perform simple sanity checks on your results

The workshop aims to promote the awk tool for use in everyday research work and urges you to find solutions yourself rather than expecting ready-made ones. The material given during the seminar will not be a complete guide or a manual but rather an overview of the capabilities, particular strengths, and common disadvantages.

Date and locatation

Thursday-Friday, 27-28 August 2026

The workshop will be held via zoom. A zoom link will be provided to registered participants prior to the event.

More information and material for the Awk Workshop

Registration page for the Awk Workshop (on nextcloud.naiss.se)