Aho Kernighan Weinberger The Awk Programming Language

• Book ID: 126274027
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Year: 1994;1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Edition: Repr. with corr., 18. [print]
• Category: Standards
• ISBN-13: 9780201079814

✦ Synopsis

Weinberger in 1977, AWK is a pattern-matching language for writing short programs to perform common data-manipulation tasks. In 1985, a new version of the language was developed, incorporating additional features such as multiple input files, dynamic regular expressions, and user-defined functions. This new version is available for both Unix and MS-DOS. This is the first book on AWK. It begins with a tutorial that shows how easy AWK is to use. The tutorial is followed by a comprehensive manual for the new version of AWK. Subsequent chapters illustrate the language by a range of useful applications, such as: Retrieving, transforming, reducing, and validating data Managing small, personal databases Text processing Little languages Experimenting with algorithms The examples illustrates the book's three themes: showing how to use AWK well, demonstrating AWK's versatility, and explaining how common computing operations are done. In addition,...

✦ Subjects

Linux / Unix