An Awk Primer
by Aurelio A. Heckert
Publisher: Wikibooks 2011
Number of pages: 49
Description:
Awk has two faces: it is a utility for performing simple text-processing tasks, and it is a programming language for performing complex text-processing tasks. Awk is useful for simple, quick-and-dirty computational programming.
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