Learning AWK Programming

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with AWK Programming, introduces AWK's essentials. In this chapter, you will learn how to set up an AWK environment on a Linux machine. You will run AWK programs in different ways with basic examples. This chapters lays the foundation for other chapters.

Chapter 2, Working with Regular Expressions, introduces regular expressions and explains how they are handled with AWK. You will get to know regular expressions with suitable examples.

Chapter 3, AWK Variables and Constants, focuses on the usage of AWK variables. You will understand how to use built-in and user-defined variables while writing AWK programs and command lines. You will also learn how string and numeric constants can be used to ...