Fang's Temple of AWK


Introduction

6 P I know Perl exists, but that's all. 7 P- What's Perl got that awk and sed don't have? 8 P-- Perl users are sick, twisted programmers who are just showing off. 9 P--- Perl combines the power of sh, the clarity of sed, and the performance of awk, with the simplicity of C. It should be banned. 10 P! Our paranoid admin won't let us install Perl! Says it's a 'hacking tool'.

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Links

GNU awk gawk online manual Getting started with awk -- basics tutorial old gawk manual, also here, here awk specification and manual -- comprehensive and describes POSIX standard awka -- an awk to C compiler (last touched 2001?) awklisp -- Lisp interpreter written in awk

Books

Awk Programming Language O'Reilly: sed and awk, 2nd edition

To Do

awk to C++ compiler
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