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- From: navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra)
- Subject: Re: Performing simple math on a numeric file from csh
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:48:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.120921.21292@netcom.com> dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross) writes:
- >
- >2) awk can be learned in no time using just the man pages. I know, that's
- >: how I learned it. I never heard of awk six months ago.
- >
- >I do envy you your sagacity. I posted after spending about 1.5 hours
- >poring over the man pages and 6 enigmatic pages in a Unix book I have.
- >Couldn't make hide nor hare of those man pages -- at least insofar as
- >doing math.
-
- Just a suggestion -- try the 'gawk manual' which is freely
- available via anonmyous ftp. It is 150+ pages of pure excitement! Not
- only will you learn awk, but you will also learn gawk (which is also
- freely available and better than awk). In addition, there are are a few
- books out on awk itself. Awk, in my opinion, is something that should be
- learned on a rudimentary basis by every serious UNIX user. For more
- powerful scripting however, learn Perl. There is no reason that I can
- think of to know both extradinarily well. So far, awk's only advantage
- is that it is available on just about every version of UNIX.
-
- -tms
-
-
- --
- You can get further with a kind word | You can get further with a kind word
- and a gun than a kind word alone. | and a phaser than a kind word and a gun.
- --al capone | -- John Navarra
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