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This reference is written for a semi-knowledgable UNIX user who has just come up against a problem and has been advised to use awk to solve it. Perhaps one of the examples can be quickly modified for immediate use.
The book is a work in progress, and there may be incomplete or missing chapters.
Chapters include:
- Getting started with awk
- Preface
- Which version
- For More Info
- References
- Introduction
- Some basics
- Some Samples
- Using regular expressions
- Booleans
- Start and End
- Begin and End
- Awk variables
- Awk Arrays
- Punctuation guide
- And now for a grand example: