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Chapter 7. Writing Scripts for awk
Chapter 7. Writing Scripts for awk
As mentioned in the preface, this book describes POSIX awk; that is, the awk language as specified by the POSIX standard. Before diving into the details, we'll provide a bit of history.
The original awk was a nice little language. It first saw the light of day with Version 7 UNIX, around 1978. It caught on, and people used it for significant programming.
