Effective awk Programming, 4th Edition

Part I. The awk Language

Part I describes the awk language and gawk program in detail. It starts with the basics, and continues through all of the features of awk. Included also are many, but not all, of the features of gawk. This part contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Getting Started with awk

• Chapter 2, Running awk and gawk

• Chapter 3, Regular Expressions

• Chapter 4, Reading Input Files

• Chapter 5, Printing Output

• Chapter 6, Expressions

• Chapter 7, Patterns, Actions, and Variables

• Chapter 8, Arrays in awk

• Chapter 9, Functions