AA-awk-one-page

http://awk.freeshell.org/AA-awk-one-page
2013-09-19 20:23:02 http://awk.freeshell.org/g0ph3r
attempt to create one page of the essential awk.

tutorial / primer
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Awk_Primer
(( can be saved as a single pdf file ))
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Getting-Started.html

wiki: http://awk.freeshell.org/?action=index
portal: http://awk.info/?var/toc
irc chat channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#awk -or- https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=awk
usenet news group: https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.awk

bwk-awk: the k of awk - 2012-12-20
home: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/
book: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html
additions/changes: http://awk.freeshell.org/FIXES
awk man(1): http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/man/man1/awk.html
exe-cutable 64 bit 2011-08-10 http://scottn.us/downloads/awk64.exe

gawk (gnu awk) 4.1.0 2013-05-10
home: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
expose' of gawk 4.1: ((extensive additions to original awk))
http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/gnu-awk-this-is-not-your-fathers-awk/240158351
source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/
exe-cutable: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
((gawk-4.1.0-2-w32-bin.zip -- requires the four .dll files)

mawk 1.3.4 2013-08-03 ((often the fastest awk))
home: http://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html
changelog: http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES
exe-cutable: ftp://invisible-island.net/mawk/win32/

busybox awk - based on gawk 3.1.8 - 2013-08-13
description: http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Awk
home: http://www.busybox.net/
win-32: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/busybox/index.html
exe-cutable: ftp://ftp.tigress.co.uk/public/gpl/6.0.0/busybox/

advocacy:
http://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and-most-elegant-big-data-munging-language/
http://awk.freeshell.org/AwkVsPerl
http://awk.info/?Sed