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Not at all, I'm just not familiar with it so I find it confusing.
Although, looking at your command, i think I understand what it means
I had to check the syntax because I also don't use it enough to be sure, definitely a bit weird. Basically just grep for a regex and print the specified column.
Just a thumb of rule to make sense of it: A column in AWK is by default any space separated part. You can change the column separator to any other character too with
-F ":"
in example would be a double colon. There is also a way to print all columns, but with certain exceptions. In example print all, but the third and fourth columns:ls -l | awk '{$3=""; $4=""; print $0}'
. Admittely I forget this syntax often and have to look for it again.