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Re: Help learning awk

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From: Tom Bates
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13
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In article <1993Jan22.115524.17256@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
> I know of several alternatives for you.  Perhaps someone else can provide 
> you with details on how to locate them.
> 
> 1. Contact a local library (college, university or public) and have a
> literature search down for the awk programming language.  There have been
> tutorials written in various Sun oriented and Unix oriented magazines 
> teaching awk usage over the past few yrs.
> 
> For instance, the SIGPLAN Notices, V18 #12 - Dec. 1983 has an article
> called "A Walk Through AWK" written by Leon S Levy of Bell Labs which
> is very good.
> 
> 2. Look for a document, which is available online somewhere, called:
> "A Supplemental Document for AWK, - or -, Thanks Al, Pete, And Brian
> Didn't Mention Much" by John W Pierce, Univ of California, San Diego.
> 
> 3. Using gopher, go searching for guides to awk written at other colleges
> and universitys.
> -- 
> Larry W. Virden                 UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
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Try finding "The AWK Programing Language" at your better bookstore.  It's
written by the original authors  and I have found it very helpful.  I got mine
at BOOKSTOP.

	Sincerely,
		Tom
-- 
Tom Bates

IBM Austin
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