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Effective AWK Programming

A User's Guide for GNU AWK

by Arnold Robbins

Effective AWK Programming

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Book Description

When processing text files, the awk language is ideal for handling data extraction, reporting, and data-reformatting jobs. This practical guide serves as both a reference and tutorial for POSIX-standard awk and for the GNU implementation, called gawk. This book is useful for novices and awk experts alike.

In this thoroughly revised 5th edition, author and gawk lead developer Arnold Robbins describes the awk language and gawk program in detail, shows you how to use awk and gawk for problem solving, and then dives into specific features of gawk. System administrators, programmers, webmasters, and other power users will find everything they need to know about awk and gawk.

You will learn how to:
- Format text and use regular expressions in awk and gawk
- Process data using awk's operators and built-in functions
- Manage data relationships using associative arrays
- Define your own functions
- "Think in awk" with two full chapters of sample functions and programs
- Take advantage of gawk's many advanced features
- Debug awk programs with the gawk built-in debugger
- Extend gawk by writing new functions in C or C++

This open book is licensed under a GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL). You can download Effective AWK Programming ebook for free in PDF format (3.6 MB).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Getting Started with awk
Chapter 2
Running awk and gawk
Chapter 3
Regular Expressions
Chapter 4
Reading Input Files
Chapter 5
Printing Output
Chapter 6
Expressions
Chapter 7
Patterns, Actions, and Variables
Chapter 8
Arrays in awk
Chapter 9
Functions
Chapter 10
A Library of awk Functions
Chapter 11
Practical awk Programs
Chapter 12
Advanced Features of gawk
Chapter 13
Internationalization with gawk
Chapter 14
Debugging awk Programs
Chapter 15
Namespaces in gawk
Chapter 16
Arithmetic and Arbitrary-Precision Arithmetic with gawk
Chapter 17
Writing Extensions for gawk
Appendix A
The Evolution of the awk Language
Appendix B
Installing gawk
Appendix C
Implementation Notes
Appendix D
Basic Programming Concepts

Book Details

Title
Effective AWK Programming
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
Free Software Foundation, O'Reilly Media
Published
2020
Pages
572
Edition
5
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781882114283
ISBN10 Digital
1882114280
PDF Size
3.6 MB
License
GNU FDL

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