Linux Voice Introduction
Linux Voice Introduction
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Article from Issue 313/2026
This month in Linux Voice.
The weird thing about high tech is that some tools are obsolete in six months and others keep chugging for decades. The venerable AWK programming language is nearly 50 years old, and it's still used for many of the tasks it was created for. AWK falls in the family of old-school text processing tools that includes the likes of sed and grep, but it is considerably more powerful and therefore more complex. This month, we take a look at the GNU project's AWK variant, which is known by the highly predictable name gawk. Also in this month's Linux Voice, we try out hledger-textual, a practical tool for plain-text accounting, and take a close look at virtual filesystems in Linux.
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