WA1194 AWK Programming

The objective of this course is to develop the advanced skills required to write applications using the awk programming language.
Topics
  • Getting Started with awk
  • Regular Expressions
  • Reading Input Files
  • Printing Output
  • Expressions
  • Patterns, Actions, and Variables
  • Arrays in awk
  • Functions
  • Internationalization with gawk
  • Advanced Features of gawk
  • Running awk and gawk
  • A Library of awk Functions
  • Practical awk Programs
  • Internetworking with gawk
Audience
Unix system application developers, administrators, and advanced users.
Prerequisites
The ability to write programs in a high level language (such as C or shell) is very helpful in completing the lab exercises and understanding the lectures. A good working knowledge of the UNIX environment is necessary.
Duration
Three days.
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