GNU AWK

Example based guide to mastering GNU awk.

Exercises not yet included, but will be added soon...

See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.

E-book

You can purchase the book using these links:

For a preview of the book, see sample chapters

The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdf from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.

Please open an issue if you spot any typo/errors.

I'd also highly appreciate your feedback about the book.

GNU awk documentation — manual and examples
stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange — for getting answers to pertinent questions on bash, awk and other commands
tex.stackexchange — for help on pandoc and tex related questions
Cover image: LibreOffice Draw
softwareengineering.stackexchange and skolakoda for programming quotes
Warning and Info icons by Amada44 under public domain

Special thanks to all my friends and online acquaintances for their help, support and encouragement, especially during these difficult times.

The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file

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