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- | awk Programming Language | + | ====== AWK ====== |
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+ | AWK is a data-processing and scripting language created by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan at Bell Labs in 1977. It is available on most UNIX systems since Version 7 and is still found on the majority of UNIX and UNIX-like systems today. | ||
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+ | As a scripting language, AWK is suitable for writing both one-liners and programs of a few hundred lines. | ||
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+ | AWK is available on systems including the PDP 11/70. | ||
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+ | ===== Examples ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Hello world ==== | ||
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+ | BEGIN { | ||
+ | print " | ||
+ | end | ||
+ | } | ||
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+ | ===== Further Reading ===== | ||
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+ | Aho, A. V., Kernighan, B. W., Weinberger, P. J. (1988). //The AWK programming language//. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. |