Online Programming Tutorials

AWK is a Unix programming language named for its developers (Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan). Once you get used to its funky, terse syntaxes and get past its useless error messages, it’s well worth learning. In this course your principal uses of AWK will be to reformat files to create GRASS cats, reclass and sites files. AWK can do a great deal more, however. For more complete reference, check out Aho, A.V., B.W. Kernighan and P.J. Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

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