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sohkamyung on May 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the or...

Awk also supports BEGIN and END actions that take place at the start and at the end of execution.

BEGIN might be used to initialise Awk variables or print initial messages, while END can be used to print a summary of actions at the end.

See [1] https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html#uh-1

RBerenguel on May 29, 2019 [–]

You can also use either BEGIN or END as the only entrypoints, essentially using AWK as you'd use any other programming language. Yes, sometimes this defeats the point of what AWK excels at, but it's good to know.

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