Effective awk Programming

by Arnold Robbins

Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition, focuses entirely on awk, exploring it in the greatest depth of the three awk titles we carry. It's an excellent companion piece to the more broadly focused second edition. This book provides complete coverage of the gawk 3.1 language as well as the most up-to-date coverage of the POSIX standard for awk available anywhere. Author Arnold Robbins clearly distinguishes standard awk features from GNU awk (gawk) -specific features, shines light into many of the "dark corners" of the language (areas to watch out for when programming), and devotes two full chapters to example programs. A brand new chapter is devoted to TCP/IP networking with gawk. He includes a summary of how the awk language evolved. The book also In addition to covering the awk language, this book serves as the official "User's Guide" for the GNU implementation of awk ( gawk ), describing in an integrated fashion the extensions available to the System V Release 4 version of awk that are also available in gawk . As the official gawk User's Guide, this book will also be available electronically, and can be freely copied and distributed under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's Free Documentation License (FDL). A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to the Free Software Foundation to support further development of free and open source software. The third edition of Effective awk Programming is a GNU Manual and is published by O'Reilly & Associates under the (FDL). A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book is donated to the Free Software Foundation to further development of GNU software. This book is also available in electronic form; you have the freedom to modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.

Genres: Programming, Computers, Reference, Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science

456 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

Reviews

[Alvaro Tejada Galindo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book because I need to write some scripts for work...despite being pretty old, AWK is an awesome language and this book is full of really nice examples that guide through the process of learning it the right way...I enjoyed reading it and while I'm not by any means an AWK expert...I feel pretty confident on writing useful scripts...so I believe that this book really paid off -:)

[Jose Manuel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy buena guía al lenguaje awk.