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jjice on Jan 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Awk state machine parser pattern (2018)

I'm a bit upset to say that this is one of the few times I've seen AWK code outside of a one liner (some of those one liners are pretty beastly, but still).

It reads pretty well, and now I'm interested in using it a bit more for my scripts. Any good AWK examples/resources anyone can recommend?

temp0826 on Jan 31, 2022 | [–]

The AWK book written by the A W K from the program name has always been considered the bible.

Edit: misattributed to k&r

b3morales on Jan 31, 2022 | [–]

This one is good; clear explanations of the concepts and various useful examples to crib from: https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html

Their document covering sed is also excellent.

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