An Awk Primer

Table of Contents

A Guided Tour of Awk

Awk Overview
Awk Command-Line Examples
Awk Program Example

Awk Syntax

Awk Invocation and Operation
Search Patterns (1)
Search Patterns (2)
Numbers and Strings
Variables
Arrays
Operations
Standard Functions
User-defined Functions
Control Structures
Output with print and printf
A Digression: The sprintf Function
Output Redirection and Pipes

Awk Examples, NAWK & Awk Quick Reference

Using Awk from the Command Line
Awk Program Files
A Note on Awk in Shell Scripts
Nawk
Awk Quick Reference Guide
Revision History

Resources and Licensing

Resources
Licensing

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