The text file is the king format of bioinformatics. Knowing how to wrangle the text files on the command line is critical.
AWK is my life-savior when wrangling text files. Together with sed, I can accomplish a lot on the command line. TRUST me, you will love it.
“sed and awk are essential tools for wrangling text files.”
In this 12-page PDF file, you will learn the essential lessons of awk for computational biologists.