Re: [9fans] awk reading?
Winston Kodogo wrote: I resisted buying it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon, succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it. I buy my books on abebooks. I've bought many gems for $0.99. Looking at the books I've bought, the average price I payed is $4. Yes, it's not a typo. They have some very rare books as well. -- Aram Hăvărneanu
Re: [9fans] awk reading?
On 25 December 2011 11:35, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: Winston Kodogo wrote: I resisted buying it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon, succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it. I buy my books on abebooks. I've bought many gems for $0.99. Looking at the books I've bought, the average price I payed is $4. Yes, it's not a typo. They have some very rare books as well. -- Aram Hăvărneanu +1 Abebooks has a great listing of books and for relatively good prices. They offer a wide selection of used books as well. I've managed to grab my own copy of K R :) Calvin Morrison
Re: [9fans] awk reading?
Abebooks has a great listing of books and for relatively good prices. They offer a wide selection of used books as well. I've managed to grab my own copy of K R :) Calvin Morrison Another good one is alibris.com, I've grabbed a few Kernighan titles from there including The UNIX Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming for very cheap. They have The awk Programming Language for $1 right now.
[9fans] awk reading?
I know that the original request was for online reading about awk, but I can't help adding my recommendation for the offline dead tree version of The awk Programming Language by awk. I resisted buying it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon, succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it. The book is a little miracle of clarity in a confused world. And if you don't want to buy that, consider The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan Pike - chapter 4 covers awk, and the rest of the book covers all of the bits of Unix you needed to know until the lunatics took over the asylum.
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Mr. Robbins' book is a gold mine--and here I must say thanks, sir for both the outstanding documentation and the indispensable code! Thanks. I've worked at it, hard, for many years. :-) I also recommend TAPL. It's a great book. Arnold
[9fans] awk reading?
hi, just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk? cheers, -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] Any sufficiently large fragment of human activity contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow attempt at programming. Corollary: including programming ;) ((with apologies to Philip Greenspun))
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I can send you some papers on awk that I have collected over years, if you are interested. Sorry, I do not remember links. Just write me at tyapca [at] gmail.com best, peter
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On 19 December 2011 11:27, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk? I believe one of the best pieces is the book by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger. Reads well, isn't too long. (as is usual for Kernighan) Ruda
Re: [9fans] awk reading?
2011/12/19 dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.com: hi, just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk? awk.info is a good starting point. -- - yiyus || JGL .
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I agree with Ruda. 2011/12/19 Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com: On 19 December 2011 11:27, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: just yesterday i've got a glimpse of awk's power and neatness. it's good, it's useful and i want to dig deeper. what's recommended online reading on awk? I believe one of the best pieces is the book by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger. Reads well, isn't too long. (as is usual for Kernighan) Ruda -- Hugo
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I have to toot my own horn a bit: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ The manual is careful to distinguish standard awk from gnu awk features. If someone is up to porting gawk 4.0 to Plan 9, I'd be interested to help! Thanks, Arnold
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arn...@skeeve.com wrote: I have to toot my own horn a bit: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ The manual is careful to distinguish standard awk from gnu awk features. If someone is up to porting gawk 4.0 to Plan 9, I'd be interested to help! Thanks, Arnold Mr. Robbins' book is a gold mine--and here I must say thanks, sir, for both the outstanding documentation and the indispensable code! I also have to third the classic text. The example code itself I'd consider necessary reading, and that you can download for free on The Awk Programming Language site. The text itself isn't online or very cheap but try ABEBooks. You wouldn't regret the purchase. TAPL is always right on my desk. Excellent explanation of the awk model and design. Just yesterday I was re-reading the chapter on relational databases for a little script to help with our household cashflow projection. That chapter takes awk about as far as I can imagine it being reasonable, and Kernighan et al make it easy to understand.
