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What does $0=$2 in awk do?
The trick to understanding awk in all its terse glory is to understand its defaults. Most solutions you see in the wild are a clever symphony of awk defaults stacked on top of each other. In this post, I break down one of the most popular one-liners which should hopefully make future awk-ing pretty straight forward.
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Software EngineeringTools & Productivity2022
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 25, 2022 | What does $0=$2 in awk do? by sorcercode | 131 | 85 |
