The name Brian Kernighan among the authors of this updated classic raises expectations as to the book's content, and it doesn't disappoint. If anybody is in a position to write a definitive guide to ...

awk is a programming language optimized for text processing. It takes less code than sed or perl, where the input is field-based. bash and other interactive shells don't have the same capabilities ...

AWK is a text-processing language with a history spanning more than 40 years. It has a POSIX standard, several conforming implementations, and is still surprisingly relevant in 2020 — both for simple ...

In this update of the classic Awk book, the creators of the language, Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan and Peter J. Weinberger, show you what Awk can do and teach you how to use it effectively. This ...