[9fans] awk reading?

[9fans] awk reading?

[Winston Kodogo]

I know that the original request was for online reading about awk, but
I can't help adding my recommendation for the offline dead tree
version of "The awk Programming Language" by aw&k. I resisted buying
it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon,
succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it. The book is a
little miracle of clarity in a confused world.

And if you don't want to buy that, consider "The Unix Programming
Environment" by Kernighan & Pike - chapter 4 covers awk, and the rest
of the book covers all of the bits of Unix you needed to know until
the lunatics took over the asylum.

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

Winston Kodogo wrote:
> I resisted buying
> it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon,
> succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it.

I buy my books on abebooks.  I've bought many gems for $0.99.  Looking
at the books I've bought, the average price I payed is $4.  Yes, it's
not a typo.

They have some very rare books as well.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu

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[Calvin Morrison]

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On 25 December 2011 11:35, Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro> wrote:

> Winston Kodogo wrote:
> > I resisted buying
> > it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon,
> > succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it.
>
> I buy my books on abebooks.  I've bought many gems for $0.99.  Looking
> at the books I've bought, the average price I payed is $4.  Yes, it's
> not a typo.
>
> They have some very rare books as well.
>
> --
> Aram Hăvărneanu
>
>
+1

Abebooks has a great listing of books and for relatively good prices. They
offer a wide selection of used books as well. I've managed to grab my own
copy of K &  R :)

Calvin Morrison

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[Jeremy Jackins]

> Abebooks has a great listing of books and for relatively good prices. They
> offer a wide selection of used books as well. I've managed to grab my own
> copy of K &  R :)
>
> Calvin Morrison

Another good one is alibris.com, I've grabbed a few Kernighan titles
from there including The UNIX Programming Environment and The Practice
of Programming for very cheap. They have The awk Programming Language
for $1 right now.

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

[arnold]

> Mr. Robbins' book is a gold mine--and here I must say thanks, sir
> for both the outstanding documentation and the indispensable code!

Thanks. I've worked at it, hard, for many years. :-)

I also recommend TAPL.  It's a great book.

Arnold

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

[arnold]

I have to toot my own horn a bit:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/

The manual is careful to distinguish standard awk from gnu awk features.

If someone is up to porting gawk 4.0 to Plan 9, I'd be interested to
help!

Thanks,

Arnold

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[yard-ape]

arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

>I have to toot my own horn a bit:
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
>
>The manual is careful to distinguish standard awk from gnu awk
>features.
>
>If someone is up to porting gawk 4.0 to Plan 9, I'd be interested to
>help!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Arnold

Mr. Robbins' book is a gold mine--and here I must say thanks, sir, for both the outstanding documentation and the indispensable code!

I also have to third the classic text. The example code itself I'd consider necessary reading, and that you can download for free on "The Awk Programming Language" site. The text itself isn't online or very cheap but try ABEBooks. You wouldn't regret the purchase.

TAPL is always right on my desk.  Excellent explanation of the awk model and design.  Just yesterday I was re-reading the chapter on relational databases for a little script to help with our household cashflow projection. That chapter takes awk about as far as I can imagine it being reasonable, and Kernighan et al make it easy to understand.

[9fans] awk reading?

[dexen deVries]

hi,

just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's 
useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk?

cheers,
-- 
dexen deVries

[[[↓][→]]]

Any sufficiently large fragment of human activity contains an ad hoc, 
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow attempt at programming.
Corollary: including  programming ;)
((with apologies to Philip Greenspun))

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[Peter A. Cejchan]

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I can send you some papers on awk that I have collected over years, if you
are interested. Sorry, I do not remember links. Just write me at tyapca
[at] gmail.com


best,
peter

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Re: [9fans] awk reading?

[Rudolf Sykora]

On 19 December 2011 11:27, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
> just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's
> useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk?

I believe one of the best pieces is the book by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger.
Reads well, isn't too long. (as is usual for Kernighan)

Ruda

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

[hugo rivera]

I agree with Ruda.

2011/12/19 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>:
> On 19 December 2011 11:27, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
>> just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's
>> useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk?
>
> I believe one of the best pieces is the book by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger.
> Reads well, isn't too long. (as is usual for Kernighan)
>
> Ruda
>



--
Hugo

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

[yy]

2011/12/19 dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>:
> hi,
>
> just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's
> useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk?

awk.info is a good starting point.


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