Toby,
Sorry for the late reply,
I found mine at Barnes and Noble for 30 something $US.
I also have to recommend "Effective AWK Programming" from www.ssc.com.
Tim Robbins, ISBN 1-57831-000-8
It's mostly gawk, but describes the differences.
It filled in a lot of gaps the "Bible" left.
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Toby A. Rider wrote:
=> "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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