Welcome to your journey with AWK programming. We all interact with data in our daily life in one way or another. Retrieving the desired, useful information from this data can seem like a difficult task, however, if we have the correct tools and proper knowledge of how to handle them, it's really not that difficult. This book will teach you how to efficiently handle one of the best of these tools, known as AWK. It is a standard feature of a Unix-like operating system to retrieve information from raw data. It will help you to understand trivial data-processing concepts in a user-friendly way.
This chapter is designed to give you a kickstart for writing your own simple AWK programs. Throughout the book, we ...
