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Article #14Re: Help learning awk
From: Tom Bates
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13
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 > Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas INET: lvirden@cas.org > Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614 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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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!tbates From: tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates) Subject: Re: Help learning awk Originator: tbates@rama.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <C19uup.16uE@austin.ibm.com> Sender: tbates@austin.ibm.com () Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13:37 GMT References: <1993Jan21.181118.1600@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1993Jan22.115524.17256@cas.org> Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 37