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 enlarge | Authors: Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 50129
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 210
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 020107981X
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780201079814
ASIN: 020107981X
Publication Date: January 11, 1988
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10 Stars April 3, 2002
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I wish I can give 10 stars for this book. This is a bible.
Classic Reference text on AWK February 12, 2002
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is THE bible for awk users. If you refuse to use perl, which incorporated most of awk, or have to maintain old awk scripts then this is the text. I like the O'Reilly text for learning the basics, but after that you need this guide. For some tasks awk is the premier solution, for others, use awk as part of the solution along with perl and a shell script. Still a cool language. And this book is very helpful for both beginning intermediate programmers of awk and advanced users.
The awk bible a must have tome for all Unix power scripters October 26, 2000
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I second the feeling here, this awk book is the most concise, clear and useful scripting book on unix period with the exception of perl. Its also a job life saver. At work we cant use perl on our unix servers because of management attitudes so awk and sh are the only tools to script with. Become a Unix power scripter with this cool book!
AWK abundance May 14, 2000
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
This small book is packed with relevant tutorial material and examples about AWK (nawk). Since nawk is the only thing besides KSH which one has available on every UNIX system, it is absolutely essential to have a good handling of it. At many places one is not allowed to use Perl/Tcl/Python, but AWK they cannot take away, because the system needs it. And this book is the only one which presents awk in it's full power. It contains a concise reference at the end, which is very helpful. Although gawk can do more and has a nice book, it is so, that if one can install gawk, one can as well install perl. So I think, that gawk, as far as it can do more than nawk is useless. But it's not useless below, because then one can programm nawk on linux as a preparation to use it on some UNIX server. This is important for the book to choose. Because a gawk book contains many nice things which are not available to the nawk programmer.
This book is worth the money. Trust me. April 11, 1999
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have only read the first chapter of this book. But I am hooked. It might be the best book on any subject I have ever read. I wish all programming books were written this way.
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