The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that real programs can be and are written using the AWK programming language. When I first started working with UNIX, going back 10 years now, no one I ...

awk is a programming language optimized for text processing. It takes less code than sed or perl, where the input is field-based. bash and other interactive shells don't have the same capabilities ...

The awk programming language often gets overlooked for Perl, which is a more capable language. Out in the real world, however awk is found even more ubiquitously than Perl. It also has a smaller ...

Awk is a powerful data processing programming language built in to almost every *nix system. It looks like a general purpose programming language on the surface, but it’s built to take input and run ...

Introduction mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK lan‐ guage is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and pro‐ cessing, and for prototyping and ...

We aren’t doing the next generation of Linux and Unix admins any favors by forgetting init scripts and fundamental tools ...

Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests.