What does the scripting language AWK have to do with networking? In the May 1996 LJ, Ian Gordon introduced us to AWK and demonstrated how to solve common problems with this scripting language that is part of Linux and every UNIX-compatible operating system. He summarized:
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The awk scripting language was originally developed as a pattern-matching language for writing short programs to perform data manipulation tasks. It was never meant to be used for networking purposes. awk´s strength is the manipulation of textual data that is stored in files. If we want to exploit its features in a networking context, we [...]
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. [...]
The name awk comes from the initials of its designers: Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian W. Kernighan. The original version of awk was written in 1977. In 1985 a new version made the programming language more powerful, introducing user-defined functions, multiple input streams, and computed regular expressions. This new version became generally [...]
This article gives some insight in to the tricks that you can do with AWK. It is not a tutorial but it provides real live examples to use.
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The Awk text-processing programming language is a useful and simple tool for manipulating text. This document provides a quick tutorial for Awk. The Awk syntax used in this document corresponds to that used on UN*X. It may vary slightly on other platforms.
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Awk is an powerful command language that allows the user to manipulate files containing columns of data and strings. Awk is extremely useful, both for general operation of Unix commands, and for data reduction (e.g. IRAF). You might also learn how to use the stream editor sed. Many applications of awk resemble those done on [...]
For many simple programming problems, awk is an excellent solution. Let Ian Gordon show you how to make your life easier.
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Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
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This qref is written for a semi-knowledgable UNIX user who has just come up against a problem and has been advised to use awk to solve it. Perhaps one of the examples can be quickly modified for immediate use.
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