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The AWK Programming Language

By Alfred V. Aho , Brian W. Kernighan , Peter J. Weinberger

Book information

Publisher
Addison Wesley
Year
1988
ISBN
020107981X, 9780201079814
LCC
QA76.73.A95 A35 1988
Google Books ID
53ueQgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL18353261M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1971215 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
221\221
DPI
400
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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