The awk Programming Language (Paperback)

Alfred V Aho; Brian W Kernighan; Peter J Weinberger
Pearson Education
 9780201079814
0-201-07981-X

Originally developed by Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger in 1977, AWK is a pattern-matching language for writing short programs to perform common data-manipulation tasks. In 1985, a new.

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version of the language was developed, incorporating additional features such as multiple input files, dynamic regular expressions, and user-defined funcitons. This new version is available for both UNIX and MS-DOS.