by
Alfred V. Aho,
Brian W. Kernighan,
and Peter J. Weinberger,
Addison-Wesley, 1988.
ISBN 0-201-07981-X.
- The book is available at university bookstores
but is much less likely to be
stocked at the mall.
You can order it online at
Amazon.com or
Barnes & Noble,
or direct from
Addison-Wesley. - Errata for the AWK book.
-
Source for the one true awk, updated May 1, 2007.
Shell archive (330K);
compressed tar file (85K);
zip file (95K).
There is also a
Windows executable (140K). -
Examples from The AWK Programming Language
by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger
as text (120Kb)
or
zipped (30Kb). - AWK is also available from
GNU (GAWK);
MKS as part of the MKS Toolkit;
Thompson Automation Software (TAWK).
GAWK is part of the Cygwin distribution.
More AWK information can be found on the
comp.lang.awk newsgroup.
The AWK book has been translated:
- French: AWK Langage de Programmation, Éditions Addison-Wesley France,
ISBN 2-87908-110-6. - Japanese: Programming Language AWK,
Kyoritsu Shuppan, ISBN 4-8101-8008-5.
Alternative books that contain significant amounts of AWK include
Effective AWK Programming, 3rd edition by Arnold Robbins
(O’Reilly, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00070-7),
and
Sed & Awk, 2nd edition
by Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins
(O’Reilly, 1997, ISBN 1-56592-225-5).