Originally developed by Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger in 1977, AWK is a pattern-matching language for writing short programs to perform common data-manipulation tasks. In 1985, a new version of the language was developed, incorpo
This book is about a set of oddly named UNIX utilities, sed and awk. These utilities have many things in common, including the use of regular expressions for pattern matching. Since pattern matching is such an important part of their use, this book
Awk is an extremely versatile programming language for working on files. We'll teach you just enough to understand the
examples in this page, plus a smidgen.
The examples given below have the extensions of the executing scr ipt as part of the filenam
