# AWK

Skill · Programming Languages

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/awk

AWK is a text-processing programming language and command-line utility built into Unix and Linux systems, named after its creators Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. It excels at scanning delimited text files (like CSV or log files), splitting lines into fields, and performing pattern-matching and reporting tasks. System administrators and developers use it for quick data extraction, transformation, and one-liner scripts in shell pipelines.

## Roles that use AWK

- [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) — 1

Related skills: [Shell Scripting](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/shell-scripting), [Regular Expressions](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/regular-expressions), [Perl](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/perl), [Unix Commands](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/unix-commands), [grep](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/grep)

## Open roles requiring AWK (1)

- [Platform Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/599703ff-5185-460b-ae1b-95d5caeebe52/platform-software-engineer-at-aerovironment) at [AeroVironment](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/aerovironment) — Full-time, Sunrise, FL, $85,000 – $145,000