“Awk workshop”

16-17 January 2025

(Collaboration between UPPMAX and NBIS)

Awk is an interpreted programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.

This two-day workshop aims to promote and demonstrate the flexibility of the tool, where the overhead of more sophisticated approaches and programming languages is not worth the bother.

Learn how to

• use Awk as an advanced grep command, capable of arithmetic selection rules with control over the content of the matched lines
• perform simple conversions, analysis or filter you data on the fly making it easy to plot or read in your favorite research tool
• handle and take advantage of data split over multiple file data sets
• use Awk as simple function or data generator
• perform simple sanity checks on your results

The workshop aims to promote the awk tool for use in everyday research work and urges you to find solutions yourself rather than expecting ready-made ones. The material given during the seminar will not be a complete guide or a manual but rather an overview of the capabilities, particular strengths, and common disadvantages.

When: 16-17 January
Where: Online via Zoom

Registration form:
https://forms.gle/Hz1mQJSiA6ewfLqz8

For more information, please visit
https://www.uu.se/en/centre/uppmax/study/courses-and-workshops/awk-workshop