The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Edition (Early Release) 9780138269876
The goal of this book is to teach you what AWK is and how to use it effectively. AWK was created in 1977 as a simple pro
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Table of contents :
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Preface
Organization of the Book
The Examples
Evolution of Awk
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments for the First Edition
1. An Awk Tutorial
1.1 Getting Started
1.2 Simple Output
1.3 Formatted Output
1.4 Selection
1.5 Computing with Awk
1.6 Control-Flow Statements
1.7 Arrays
1.8 Useful One-liners
1.9 What Next?
2. Awk in Action
2.1 Personal Computation
2.2 Selection
2.3 Transformation
2.4 Summarization
2.5 Personal Databases
2.6 A Personal Library
2.7 Summary
3. Exploratory Data Analysis
3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic
3.2 Beer Ratings
3.3 Grouping Data
3.4 Unicode Data
3.5 Basic Graphs and Charts
3.6 Summary
4. Data Processing
4.1 Data Transformation and Reduction
4.2 Data Validation
4.3 Bundle and Unbundle
4.4 Multiline Records
4.5 Summary
5 Reports and Databases
5.1 Generating Reports
5.2 Packaged Queries and Reports
5.3 A Relational Database System
5.4 Summary
6 Processing Words
6.1 Random Text Generation
6.2 Interactive Text-Manipulation
6.3 Text Processing
6.4 Making an Index
6.5 Summary
7 Little Languages
7.1 An Assembler and Interpreter
7.2 A Language for Drawing Graphs
7.3 A Sort Generator
7.4 A Reverse-Polish Calculator
7.5 A Different Approach
7.6 A Recursive-Descent Parser for Arithmetic Expressions
7.7 A Recursive-Descent Parser for a Subset of Awk
7.8 Summary
8 Experiments with Algorithms
8.1 Sorting
8.2 Profiling
8.3 Topological Sorting
8.4 Make: A File Updating Program
8.5 Summary
9 Epilogue
9.1 Awk as a Language
9.2 Performance
9.3 Conclusion
Appendix A: Awk Reference Manual
A.1 Patterns
A.2 Actions
A.3 User-Defined Functions
A.4 Output
A.5 Input
A.6 Interaction with Other Programs
A.7 Summary
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Preface
Organization of the Book
The Examples
Evolution of Awk
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments for the First Edition
1. An Awk Tutorial
1.1 Getting Started
1.2 Simple Output
1.3 Formatted Output
1.4 Selection
1.5 Computing with Awk
1.6 Control-Flow Statements
1.7 Arrays
1.8 Useful One-liners
1.9 What Next?
2. Awk in Action
2.1 Personal Computation
2.2 Selection
2.3 Transformation
2.4 Summarization
2.5 Personal Databases
2.6 A Personal Library
2.7 Summary
3. Exploratory Data Analysis
3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic
3.2 Beer Ratings
3.3 Grouping Data
3.4 Unicode Data
3.5 Basic Graphs and Charts
3.6 Summary
4. Data Processing
4.1 Data Transformation and Reduction
4.2 Data Validation
4.3 Bundle and Unbundle
4.4 Multiline Records
4.5 Summary
5 Reports and Databases
5.1 Generating Reports
5.2 Packaged Queries and Reports
5.3 A Relational Database System
5.4 Summary
6 Processing Words
6.1 Random Text Generation
6.2 Interactive Text-Manipulation
6.3 Text Processing
6.4 Making an Index
6.5 Summary
7 Little Languages
7.1 An Assembler and Interpreter
7.2 A Language for Drawing Graphs
7.3 A Sort Generator
7.4 A Reverse-Polish Calculator
7.5 A Different Approach
7.6 A Recursive-Descent Parser for Arithmetic Expressions
7.7 A Recursive-Descent Parser for a Subset of Awk
7.8 Summary
8 Experiments with Algorithms
8.1 Sorting
8.2 Profiling
8.3 Topological Sorting
8.4 Make: A File Updating Program
8.5 Summary
9 Epilogue
9.1 Awk as a Language
9.2 Performance
9.3 Conclusion
Appendix A: Awk Reference Manual
A.1 Patterns
A.2 Actions
A.3 User-Defined Functions
A.4 Output
A.5 Input
A.6 Interaction with Other Programs
A.7 Summary
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