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The AWK Programming Language
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Originally developed by Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter
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 oeprations are done. In addition, the book
contains two appendixes: summary of the language, and answers to
selected exercises.
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