The AWK Programming Language (original) (raw)

The AWK Programming Language

by Alfred V. Aho,Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger,
Addison-Wesley, 1988.
ISBN 0-201-07981-X.

• The book is available at university bookstores but is much less likely to be stocked at the mall. You can order it online atAmazon.com orBarnes & Noble, or direct fromAddison-Wesley.
• Errata for the AWK book.
• Source for the one true awk, updated May 1, 2007. Shell archive (330K); compressed tar file (85K); zip file (95K). There is also a Windows executable (140K).
• Examples from _The AWK Programming Language_by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinbergeras text (120Kb)orzipped (30Kb).
• AWK is also available fromGNU (GAWK);MKS as part of the MKS Toolkit;Thompson Automation Software (TAWK). GAWK is part of the Cygwin distribution. More AWK information can be found on thecomp.lang.awk newsgroup.

The AWK book has been translated:

• French: AWK Langage de Programmation, Éditions Addison-Wesley France, ISBN 2-87908-110-6.
• Japanese: Programming Language AWK, Kyoritsu Shuppan, ISBN 4-8101-8008-5.
  

Alternative books that contain significant amounts of AWK include Effective AWK Programming, 3rd edition by Arnold Robbins (O'Reilly, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00070-7), and Sed & Awk, 2nd editionby Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins (O'Reilly, 1997, ISBN 1-56592-225-5).

Tue May 1 17:16:03 EDT 2007