LinksPage

1. websites dedicated to awk

• awk.info news and articles about awk

2. Documentation

• http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ - the GNU Awk manual in a variety of formats; also published under the title "Effective AWK Programming"
• http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html - "Awk: a Tutorial and Introduction", by Bruce Barnett. Reputed to be one of the more easily readable awk references.
• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html - "awk: pattern scanning and processing language - Commands & Utilities Reference", The Single UNIX Specification (includes a nifty section defining the precise grammar acceptable as awk source code)
• http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/ - "Gawkinet: TCP/IP Internetworking with gawk", a relatively obscure but /very/ nifty document explaining how to make impressive use of gawk's networking facilities (though Plan 9 users are liable to sniff that their OS offers a proper /net entry in the filesystem, making such language-level extensions ugly and unnecessary)
• http://www.wra1th.plus.com/awk/awkfri.txt - "Why GAWK for AI?", Ronald P. Loui, in ACM SIGPLAN 32, 1997-08
• http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/awk/faq/ - comp.lang.awk FAQ

3. interviews

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: AWK - "Alfred V. Aho of AWK fame talks about the history and continuing popularity of his pattern matching language." (Naomi Hamilton, in Computerworld; 2008-05-27 09:43:32)
• transcript of and Interview with Peter J. Weinberger
• a more recent interview with "W"
• an interview with Arnold Robbins

4. wikis

• http://www.awk-scripting.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/00-WikiIndex
• http://awkiawki.bogosoft.com/
• http://blis.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/blis.cgi
• Mark Hobley's awk programming Wiki (United Kingdom of Great Britain Only)

5. xml

• xmlgawk
• parsing xml with posix awk

6. Articles

• All about getline from comp.lang.awk
• a trio of articles written in 2000-2001 by Daniel (not Arnold) Robbins (the first article was recently updated, which is probably why it appeared on somebody's feed radar). Parts 1, 2, 3.

7. Awk One-Liners

• Eric Pement's Awk one-liners
• Eric's one-liners explained

8. Awk Cheat Sheets

• Awk Cheat Sheet