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<h1 id="the-awk-programming-language">The AWK Programming Language</h1>
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alt="An auk (bird) stands next to the text “The AWK Programming Language”" />
<p>Alfred V. Aho • Brian W. Kernighan • Peter J. Weinberger<br/><em>AT&T
Bell Laboratories</em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Subsequent chapters illustrate the language by a range of useful
applications, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Retrieving, transforming, reducing, and validating data</li>
<li>Managing small, personal databases</li>
<li>Text processing</li>
<li>Little languages</li>
<li>Experimenting with algorithms</li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Addison-Wesley Publishing Company</p>
<p>ISBN 0-201-07981-X</p>