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Linux & Shell Scripting
Q46 / 100
What is the difference between "sed" and "awk", and what is each typically used for?
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The correct answer is A) "sed" is a stream editor for simple line-based text transformations like substitutions, while "awk" is a fuller pattern-scanning language suited for extracting and manipulating fields from structured text such as columns
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Correct Answer
"sed" is a stream editor for simple line-based text transformations like substitutions, while "awk" is a fuller pattern-scanning language suited for extracting and manipulating fields from structured text such as columns
Explanation
"sed" excels at line-based find/replace operations (e.g. "sed 's/foo/bar/g' file"), while "awk" provides a full scripting language for field-based processing, calculations, and formatted reporting (e.g. "awk '{print $1}' file").
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