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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help in awk/bash Post 302751753 by jim mcnamara on Friday 4th of January 2013 11:42:23 AM
Old 01-04-2013
Rather than reading shell books, consider some awk tutorials. A lot of bioinformatic folks comne here for help. 95% of their problems are resolved by awk. awk is a language on its own.

This is a great resource. Gawk is GNU awk, which is very probably what you have when you enter the word awk on the screen.
It has examples, explains the bizarre syntax, and program structure:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.pdf
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GLOBASH(1)							 GLOBAL Utilities							GLOBASH(1)

NAME

       globash - invoke a GLOBAL shell environment.

SYNOPSIS

       globash

DESCRIPTION

       globash	is  a bash shell enviroment that provides easy access to GLOBAL data about a project.  More information about its use is available
       in the global.info documentation, and from globash itself at any time with the ghelp command that is available from inside it.

OPTIONS

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FILES

       /etc/globash.rc - where all the real machinery lives.

BUGS

       As a wrapper globash gets to inherit bugs from other software too.  But its hardly big enough to have many on its own.

SEE ALSO

       gtags(1), global(1), htmake(1), htags(1),
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AUTHOR

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