Example based guide to mastering GNU awk.
The book also includes exercises to test your understanding, which is presented together as a single file in this repo - Exercises.md
For solutions to the exercises, see Exercise_solutions.md.
See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.
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The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdf from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.
For web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/
Step up your cli fu with this fabulous intro & deep dive into awk. I learned a ton of tricks!
I consider myself pretty experienced at shell-fu and capable of doing most things I set out to achieve in either bash scripts or fearless one-liners. However, my awk is rudimentary at best, I think mostly because it's such an unforgiving environment to experiment in.
These books you've written are great for a bit of first principles insight and then quickly building up to functional usage. I will have no hesitation in referring colleagues to them!
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