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Summary: This is the original and best book on AWK.
Review: This book is by the original authors of the language. Being an "AWKaholic," I have used this book extensively myself and have shared it with others who wished to learn the language. I can say from experience that this is the best source of information on AWK both for beginners and for experienced users. Highly recommended.
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Summary: "The" AWK book
Review: This book is to AWK what "The C Programming Language" is to C. Its the bible. Its your first read. Its your constant reference guide. I too, am an AWKaholic. The examples are well thought out and designed to show the power of AWK. If a problem fits AWK's problem space....there is Nothing better at solving the problem.
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Summary: "The" AWK book
Review: This book is to AWK what "The C Programming Language" is to C. Its the bible. Its your first read. Its your constant reference guide. I too, am an AWKaholic. The examples are well thought out and designed to show the power of AWK. If a problem fits AWK's problem space....there is Nothing better at solving the problem.
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Summary: Classic Reference text on AWK
Review: This is THE bible for awk users. If you refuse to use perl, which incorporated most of awk, or have to maintain old awk scripts then this is the text. I like the O'Reilly text for learning the basics, but after that you need this guide. For some tasks awk is the premier solution, for others, use awk as part of the solution along with perl and a shell script. Still a cool language. And this book is very helpful for both beginning intermediate programmers of awk and advanced users.
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Summary: Classic Reference text on AWK
Review: This is THE bible for awk users. If you refuse to use perl, which incorporated most of awk, or have to maintain old awk scripts then this is the text. I like the O'Reilly text for learning the basics, but after that you need this guide. For some tasks awk is the premier solution, for others, use awk as part of the solution along with perl and a shell script. Still a cool language. And this book is very helpful for both beginning intermediate programmers of awk and advanced users.
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Summary: AWK abundance
Review: This small book is packed with relevant tutorial material and examples about AWK (nawk). Since nawk is the only thing besides KSH which one has available on every UNIX system, it is absolutely essential to have a good handling of it. At many places one is not allowed to use Perl/Tcl/Python, but AWK they cannot take away, because the system needs it. And this book is the only one which presents awk in it's full power. It contains a concise reference at the end, which is very helpful. Although gawk can do more and has a nice book, it is so, that if one can install gawk, one can as well install perl. So I think, that gawk, as far as it can do more than nawk is useless. But it's not useless below, because then one can programm nawk on linux as a preparation to use it on some UNIX server. This is important for the book to choose. Because a gawk book contains many nice things which are not available to the nawk programmer.
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Summary: A superb text on what Awk can do...and how to do it!
Review: While the Nutshell book is more of a reference guide, Aho's shows how to really use the language with practical examples.From basic examples to flatfile reports and using Awk to try out language issues in compiler design. For those who know Awk there are some great ideas in here. For those who are just starting out it's an excellent way to ease yourself into writing Awk scripts. A script writers must have.
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