Awk as tool and scripting language
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Conclusion
Awk can address many everyday user or administrator tasks quickly and effortlessly, and it is easier to learn than many other programming languages. This article covers the basics and provides a few more complex examples. You can find support and countless other examples in news groups and on many websites.
The free documentation [2] makes learning Awk easy and includes many more examples. The book by the three Awk inventors – Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan [6] – is recommended for more advanced users.l
Infos
- Code examples from this article: ftp://ftp.linux-magazine.com/pub/listings/ubuntu-user.com/25/AWK/
- Robbins, Arnold. The GNU Awk User's Guide 2003: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html
- "Regular Expressions" by Martin Streicher, Linux Shell Handbook 5 : http://www.sparkhaus-shop.com/eu/magazines/special-editions/eh32040.html
- Friedl, Jeffrey. Mastering Regular Expressions , O'Reilly, 2006.
- Bentley, Jon. Programming Pearls , Addison-Wesley, 2000.
- Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger. The AWK Programming Language , Addison-Wesley, 1988.
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