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- From: tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates)
- Subject: Re: Help learning awk
- Originator: tbates@rama.austin.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <C19uup.16uE@austin.ibm.com>
- Sender: tbates@austin.ibm.com ()
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.181118.1600@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1993Jan22.115524.17256@cas.org>
- Organization: IBM Austin
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- In article <1993Jan22.115524.17256@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- > I know of several alternatives for you. Perhaps someone else can provide
- > you with details on how to locate them.
- >
- > 1. Contact a local library (college, university or public) and have a
- > literature search down for the awk programming language. There have been
- > tutorials written in various Sun oriented and Unix oriented magazines
- > teaching awk usage over the past few yrs.
- >
- > For instance, the SIGPLAN Notices, V18 #12 - Dec. 1983 has an article
- > called "A Walk Through AWK" written by Leon S Levy of Bell Labs which
- > is very good.
- >
- > 2. Look for a document, which is available online somewhere, called:
- > "A Supplemental Document for AWK, - or -, Thanks Al, Pete, And Brian
- > Didn't Mention Much" by John W Pierce, Univ of California, San Diego.
- >
- > 3. Using gopher, go searching for guides to awk written at other colleges
- > and universitys.
- > --
- > Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
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- Try finding "The AWK Programing Language" at your better bookstore. It's
- written by the original authors and I have found it very helpful. I got mine
- at BOOKSTOP.
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- Sincerely,
- Tom
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- Tom Bates
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- IBM Austin
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