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Old 07-17-2011
Good resource for learning awk with example

Hi Guys,

I need to learn awk and looking for some good resource with example. I have been using Unix from long time but awk is something always allude me. would be great if you guys could point me on some good stuff but less complicated one Smilie

Thanks
Javin
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Old 07-17-2011
Start with the awk oneliners site:

http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt

Get the original Awk book by the program authors:

The AWK Programming Language

You find a lot of useful awk tips at this site:

The UNIX and Linux Forums - Threads Tagged with awk

A quite good awk tutorial:

awk.html
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Old 07-17-2011
Thanks jostber, awk lines are really good.
 
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