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

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

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

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

As yet another alternative, you can install textual==0.85.2 (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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Code snippets are licensed under MIT LICENSE

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