By Mark Brett Independent Reviewer

Title: effective awk Programming

Author: Arnold Robbins

Publisher: O’Reilly

ISBN: 0-596-00070-7

Awk has been around for many years, being one of the building blocks of Unix. The awk processing language is very versatile, design to undertake bulk actions on text files. Essentially awk works on patterns occurring in files, find all Smith’s then….

Recently awk has grow in popularity because of Linux and the emergence of gawk under the GNU licensing regime. If awk is a language you need to use or know, this is the book for you.

If your curious about awk on your “Lunchtime Linux” project box, this book will be a great read. Well written, easily read and technically accurate, not much more to say really!