procinfosorted

In the Unix-like operating systems, awk is a powerful text processing tool, commonly used to manipulate data and generate reports. One lesser-known feature of awk is its ability to control the traversal order of arrays using the PROCINFO["sorted_in"] array. This blog post delves into how to utilize this feature, enhancing your awk scripts' flexibility and efficiency. A1: awk is a scripting language used for manipulating data and generating reports. It's particularly strong in pattern scanning and processing. awk operations are based on the pattern-action model, where you specify conditions to test each line of data and actions to perform when conditions are met.