Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger.
The AWK Programming Language.
Addison Wesley. 1988
(read but not reviewed)
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 illustrate 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: a summary of the language, and answers to selected exercises.