Effective AWK Programming teaches you about the awk language and how you can use it effectively. You should already be familiar with basic system commands, such as cat and ls, (1) and basic shell facilities, such as Input/Output (I/O) redirection and pipes.  Implementations of the awk language are available for many different computing environments. Effective AWK Programming, while describing the awk language in general, also describes a particular implementation of awk called gawk (which stands for "GNU Awk"). gawk runs on a broad range of Unix systems, ranging from 80386 PC-based computers, up through large scale systems, such as Crays. Gawk has also been ported to MS-DOS and OS/2 PC's, Atari and Amiga micro-computers, and VMS. iUniverse.com computer books are composed of freely available online computer manuals, industry standard specifications, and electronically distributed computer programming guides. They include open documents collections of industry specifications and standards and a collection of the best open source documentation on the Web...the most complete open source library available anywhere.  Each book contains the complete, unabridged text of the original document. Our on-demand publishing process gives you the actual text of the online document in a convenient, inexpensive, easy-to-use format.  And remember...iUniverse.com donates a portion of the profits from open document and open source books to support the mission of the free software community.

Effective Awk Programming: A User's Guide for Gnu Awk, Edition 1.0.3

Computers & Technology

Robbins, Arnold D.

Programming Languages

iUniverse, Inc.

AWK is an interpreted programming language that is included in most  versions of Unix. The name is derived from the initials of its  creators--Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan--who developed the  language in 1977. The language is particularly designed for filtering and  manipulating textual data. In this respect, it is similar to Perl, though  Perl is more powerful. There are many variants of AWK, including gawk,  which is the GNU version.Effective AWK Programming was published by the Free  Software Foundation (FSF) and distributed in electronic form with the  GNU AWK source code. It was also published by SSC to help make it  more widely available in book form, and is now offered by O'Reilly &  Associates.Effective AWK Programming covers every aspect of the AWK  3.0.3 and 3.0.4 language. It offers the most up-to-date coverage of  the POSIX standard for AWK available anywhere, and clearly distinguishes  standard AWK features from GNU AWK-specific features. The author  sheds light on many of the "dark corners" of the language (areas to  watch out for when programming), devotes two full chapters to  example programs, and includes a summary of how the AWK language  evolved.

Effective AWK Programming

O'Reilly Media

GAWK: The GNU AWK User's Guide

Free Software Foundation

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