May 1987
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
17h 3m
English
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A
.ab request 440
alias command 294
alphabetic lists
arguments
in macros 416
in shell scripts 23
to UNIX commands 13
arithmetic expressions
in troff 419
.as request 430
autoincrementing number registers 428
awkronym script 390, 392-393, 396-397, 399-400
basic operations 387
BEGIN procedures 392
built-in functions 408
capabilities of 387
changing the field separator 391
conditional statements 394
dividing input into records and fields 389
error handling in 404
for loops with arrays 396
formatted print statement 402
passing parameters from a shell script 390
scripts for order tracking 405
similarities to sed 387
substr function 557
syntax of procedures 589
testing fields 390
while loops 393
B
.B1 macro (ms) 124
.B2 macro (ms) 124
background processing 20
.BD macro (ms) 119
.bd request 463
bdiff ...
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