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Old 08-17-2010
MySQL frans

dear frans, could you please suggest me where I should start to be able to write short scripts? I knew a bit of C (pointers and structures included)... could you suggest me some workflow or even books etc. thank you in advance
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Old 08-17-2010
If you want to learn AWK, this will get you started, and The GNU Awk User's Guide will teach you everything about AWK, it might not be really everything, thorough enough though.
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Old 08-17-2010
You can find here : The Linux Documentation Project: Guides a couple of guides in html, pdf ...
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Old 08-17-2010
thank you both!
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