Learning AWK Programming

Data files used as examples in this book

Throughout the book, most of our examples will be taking their input from two sample data files. The first one is emp.dat, which represents the sample employee information database. It consists of the following columns from left to right, each separated by a single tab:

• Employee's first name
• Last name
• Phone number
• Email address
• Gender
• Department
• Salary in USD

Jack    Singh   9857532312  [e-mail]      M   hr      2000Jane    Kaur    9837432312  [e-mail]      F   hr      1800Eva     Chabra  8827232115  [e-mail]       F   lgs     2100Amit    Sharma  9911887766  [e-mail]      M   lgs     2350Julie   Kapur   8826234556  [e-mail]     F   Ops     2500Ana     Khanna  9856422312  [e-mail]    F   Ops     2700Hari    Singh   8827255666  [e-mail]      M   Ops     2350Victor Sharma ...