by
Alfred V. Aho,
Brian W. Kernighan,
and Peter J. Weinberger,
Addison-Wesley, 1988.
ISBN 0-201-07981-X.
The AWK book has been translated:
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).