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Reading, MA, et al.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1998. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 210 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external and overall wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: 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, incorporating additional features such as multiple input files, dynamic regular expressions, and user-defined functions. This new version is available for both Unix and MS-DOS. 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,…
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