Awk by example, Part 1 --

http://www.funtoo.org/en/articles/linux/awk/1/

by doki_pen • 16 years ago

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malomalo• 16 years ago

This is an exact copy of http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html?..., not sure who's copying who...but the article on IBM is from July 2008

bingaman2• 16 years ago

Funtoo is Daniel Robbins site and the article you've linked is credited to Daniel Robbins as well.

Really nice introduction to awk. I've been meaning to dig a bit deeper into it and this is straightforward and easy.

bingaman2• 16 years ago

Also, from the right side of the page: "This article was originally published on IBM developerWorks."

lidmith2• 16 years ago

Thanks, I was interested in an Awk learning resource, and this looks like exactly what I would want.

telemachos• 16 years ago

You might also take a look at Sed & Awk, co-authored by Daniel Robbin's father, Arnold Robbins.

http://books.google.com/books?id=m4ZzElQZxcoC&dq=sed+awk...

lidmith2• 16 years ago

TY, I'll bookmark that as well for when I finish the other one.

silentbicycle• 16 years ago

_The Awk Programming Language_ is vastly better, IMHO, and half the size. Brian Kernighan co-wrote it. It's that good.

The awk chapters in Bentley's _Programming Pearls_ and _More Programming Pearls_ and Peteris Krumins's Awk One-Liners series (http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-one-liners-explained-part-o...) are worth a read, as is the source for awk. (nawk, at least - haven't looked at gawk).

abecedarius• 16 years ago

You might also like http://awk.info/ then.

hillad• 16 years ago

$ awk -F":" '{ print "username: " $1 "\t\tuid:" $3" }' /etc/passwd awk: { print "username: " $1 "\t\tuid:" $3" } awk: ^ unterminated string

Needs to be

$ awk -F":" '{ print "username: " $1 "\t\tuid:" $3 }' /etc/passwd

Awk by example, Part 1 --

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