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 operations are done. In addition, the book contains two appendixes: summary of the language, and answers to selected exercises. 020107981XB04062001
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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
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Brian W. Kernighan works in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He is Consulting Editor for Addison-Wesley's Professional Computing Series and the author, with Dennis Ritchie, of The C Programming Language.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
By G. Powell
Format:Paperback
This is THE bible for awk users. If you refuse to use perl, which incorporated most of awk, or have to maintain old awk scripts then this is the text. I like the O'Reilly text for learning the basics, but after that you need this guide. For some tasks awk is the premier solution, for others, use awk as part of the solution along with perl and a shell script. Still a cool language. And this book is very helpful for both beginning intermediate programmers of awk and advanced users.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
The AWK Programming Language was written very well. The first couple of chapters describe the language and the rest are full of real-world examples. The exercises at the end of each section are very helpful and expand on the examples given. Any one who works with flat data files should be familiar with awk, and this is the book to get the job done.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
While the Nutshell book is more of a reference guide, Aho's shows how to really use the language with practical examples.
From basic examples to flatfile reports and using Awk to try out language issues in compiler design.
For those who know Awk there are some great ideas in here. For those who are just starting out it's an excellent way to ease yourself into writing Awk scripts.
A script writers must have.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Good review of awk
This is a concise book and offers something to novices and advanced users. It's especially well written. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jim Gerdy
5.0 out of 5 stars
The standard, the best, just buy it.
This is a wonderful book about a very handy language. It's the gold standard, written by the language's authors. You can learn everything you need to know about awk from this book. Read more
Published 21 months ago by tinker
5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the original scripting languages
Along with sh, AWK is one of the original scripting languages. Before I learned Perl or any of the newer languages (python, etc), I wrote scripts combining shell and awk. Read more
Published on January 4, 2011 by M. Rumore
5.0 out of 5 stars
I found same title this book(in japanese), then huge Computer books is...
Since 1977, I read Computer books in japanese.
So, Many English book was trasrated in japanese.
But this books is essential one, I need this read again.
So, Many English book was trasrated in japanese.
But this books is essential one, I need this read again.
Published on December 29, 2010 by tak lisper
5.0 out of 5 stars
What an obscene price tag for a paperback & 210 pages
When I bought this book in the early 90's, it cost me $20, now it is $84!!!! This is the book written by the authors of the language and is like any other book they have put out. Read more
Published on November 7, 2010 by Raghuram Krishnaswamy
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Classic title for an unbeatable utility...
This is an absolute classic which although ancient in Computing years is an absolute gem full of relevance yet. Read more
Published on October 17, 2010 by CrackerJack
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Publishers Should Be Ashamed of Themselves
This is a wonderful book -- but the price is ridiculous. I purchased a paperback copy of "The Awk Programming Language" about 15 years ago, and its price was in the $20 range. Read more
Published on April 25, 2008 by hoosac
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected
I am torn about this book. My primary complaint is that this book costs so much. Its only a 200 page paper back book. I'm a sucker for classic books though. Read more
Published on November 25, 2007 by Michael B. Rowen
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you could have only one programming book...
This is my choice for the answer to the question "If you were stranded on a deserted island and you could have only one programming book which book would you choose?". Read more
Published on August 14, 2007 by John R. Nyquist
5.0 out of 5 stars
Put this in your toolbox
I've become a big fan of Awk. Some people may tell you that Awk is outdated and no longer useful; not with other languages such as Perl and Ruby available. Read more
Published on January 29, 2007 by Donald Dwoske
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