Ebook: Effective awk Programming

Effective awk Programming 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, and devotes two full chapters to example programs. A brand new chapter is devoted to TCP/IP networking with gawk. As the official "User's Guide" for the GNU implementation of awk ( gawk ), it describes in an integrated fashion the extensions available to the System V Release 4 version of awk that are also available in gawk . The book is also 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.