Effective awk Programming
by Arnold Robbins · first published 1997
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Same as usual, read every book about it![0] and don't try to learn from the man page. I think the original book by A, W and K (the 2nd edition anyway) was best. Also Arnold Robbins' books Sed and Awk and Effective AWK Programming are great. The GNU Awk User's Guide[1] is amazingly detailed, but the new AWK has bloated a lot, has 1000 features where the older one had a few dozen, and those core ones should be learnt first. (But…
on “Problem solving with Unix commands” ↗A copy: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=0AD0779BF3602F1EA22... Also Arnold Robbins' books Sed and Awk and Effective Awk Programming are excellent, and also detail the many features added since the latest edition of The AWK Programming Language (1988). http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?&req=awk+robbins&sort=year&...
on “Learn Just a Little Awk (2010)” ↗See also the GNU Awk manual (currently Edition 4.2, Oct 2017) GAWK: Effective AWK Programming https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.pdf
on “Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples” ↗Robbins' open source book may be of interest as well: GAWK: Effective AWK Programming https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.pdf
on “The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]” ↗The guy that runs the site is the author of GAWK: Effective AWK Programming. It's a great book, it helps get you in the AWK mindset.
on “Awklang.org – Τhe site for things related to the Awk language” ↗…https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-complex-software-writ... According to an answer at the above link, an nroff-subset text formatter and Lisp subset interpreter have been written in awk. Those are more complex than simple record processing. Also: [1] Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000707.do
on “Awk vs. Perl (2009)” ↗Just made me remember that my awk programming book has a penguin. Now I'm sad two times! Sorry, "Effective awk Programming"[0] 0. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26353120M/Effective_awk_Prog...
on “Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered” ↗