"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
>
> Can I suggest instead that you look at the awk info pages. That is more
> pertinent to the awk that comes on Linux and is an excellent manual in its
> own right.
>
> To view on line, you'll find it as info pages. To print the manual, just
> run texi2dvi on the .texinfoi file. Easy peasy.
>
Thank you for this suggestion! I have those AWK pages printed and
bound. They're a very useful reference. BTW, have you seen a copy of
this book I was mentioning? It was written by the guys who programmed
AWK back in 1977. It's excellent, very nice sample code in there to do
most things you'd want to with AWK. Plus it's very
non-platform-specific. I administrate a machine room with Linux boxes,
Sun boxes and Silicon Graphics boxes. It's really important that any
sort of scripting I do will easily run on anything with minimal or no
modification. We constantly have problems with the developers coding
their apps to use features that are specific to Linux, or specific to
Solaris, or specific to IRIX. It tends to create significant emotional
events for them when for unforeseen reasons they're required to port
their code to another platform in a short amount of time. I try not to
fall into the same trap :-)
At any rate the more references I can get for all the tools of the
trade, the better. I just don't like having to pay more then necessary
for them. I got a tip sent to me off list on source for the book that is
$6.00 less then what amazon.com wants for the book, so I think I'll
order it now :-)
Toby A. Rider
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