AwkTutorial

Awk Tutorial

This interactive tutorial aims to give a brief tour of the GNU awk command.

Installation

This app is available on PyPI as awktutorial. Example installation instructions are shown below, adjust them based on your preferences and OS.

# virtual environment
$ python3 -m venv textual_apps
$ cd textual_apps
$ source bin/activate
$ pip install awktutorial

# launch the app
$ awktutorial

To run the app without having to enter the virtual environment again, add this alias to .bashrc (or equivalent):

# you'll have to change the path
alias awktutorial='/path/to/textual_apps/bin/awktutorial'

As an alternative to manually managing such virtual environments, you can use https://github.com/pypa/pipx instead:

$ pipx install awktutorial
$ awktutorial

As yet another alternative, you can install textual (see Textual documentation for more details), clone this repository and run the awk_tutorial.py file.

Adjust the terminal dimensions for the widgets to appear properly, for example 84x25 (characters x lines). Here's a sample screenshot:

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License

Code snippets are licensed under MIT LICENSE

Tutorial is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License