awk command

wolf · July 31, 2001, 8:39am

Hi,

The awk command is one of the most powerfull commands in UNIX. Can someone please explain to me how this command works and give me an example please. I do not understand this command and also the all the -Ffs and -v and -f variables that are used in this command. I never used the awk command, but really like to know how this works.

Regards
wolf

system · July 31, 2001, 9:39am

As neo suggested to one of your earlier posts - look at the man page to find out more about a command, it's true that you may have to read over the pages two or three times, but they are the best inital source of information.

This awk tutorial may help you:

http://vectorsite.tripod.com/tsawk0.html

Regards.

patvdv · July 31, 2001, 9:43am

i would also advise you to spend some money on a good shell scripting book: e.g. UNIX shell programming by Lowell Jay Arthur

or alternatively at least buy yourself a good reference book (with examples) like UNIX in a nutshell from O'Reilly's.

Optimus_P · July 31, 2001, 10:17am

as with most books i would personly suggest:

sed & awk from O'reilly.

Iv read it once filp thru it 100 times. excelient desk book. (as with most oreilly books)

clemeot · August 2, 2001, 11:28pm

as suggested by Optimus_P about the O'reilly book for Unix,
I found that the book is hard to find in the market...

Neo · August 2, 2001, 11:45pm

Here is the book recommended in this thread:

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