Awk by example
Posted by Michael Anckaert on Jul 17, 2008 in Uncategorized • No commentsThere’s a great tutorial on Awk over at Common threads: Awk by example, Part 1 by Daniel Robbins.
In this series of articles, I’m going to turn you into a proficient awk coder. I’ll admit, awk doesn’t have a very pretty or particularly “hip” name, and the GNU version of awk, called gawk, sounds downright weird. Those unfamiliar with the language may hear “awk” and think of a mess of code so backwards and antiquated that it’s capable of driving even the most knowledgeable UNIX guru to the brink of insanity (causing him to repeatedly yelp “kill -9!” as he runs for coffee machine).