AWK — A Language That Impressed Me

An Introduction and Exercises With Solutions

AWK is an interpreter-based programming language. It is extremely strong and made specifically for text processing. AWK is being used for data manipulation and report generation. With the awk command programming language, variables, string functions, numeric functions, and logical operators can all be used without the need for compilation. Its name is derived from the family names of its authors (Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan).