learn_gnuawk

Example based guide to mastering GNU awk

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Example based guide to mastering GNU awk

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asicsp·Aug 28, 2023

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback :) Yeah, the web version is always free for all of my ebooks. And you can find the markdown source on GitHub, for example: https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk/blob/master/g... I use `pandoc` to generate the PDF/EPUB versions from markdown. See my blog post https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/ for details.

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asicsp·Aug 28, 2023

Hello! Author here. I am pleased to announce a new version of my "CLI text processing with GNU awk" ebook. Learn the `GNU awk` command step-by-step from beginner to advanced levels with hundreds of examples and exercises. This book will dive deep into field processing, show examples for filtering features, multiple file processing, how to construct solutions that depend on multiple records, how to compare records and fields between two or more files, how to identify duplicates while maintaining input order and so on. Regular Expressions will also be discussed in detail. Links: * PDF/EPUB versions: https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/gnu_awk (free till 31-August-2023) * Web version: https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/ * Markdown source, example files, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk * Interactive TUI app for

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exercises: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/blob/main/AwkExer... Bundle offers: * Magical one-liners (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/oneliners/new_awk_relea...) is $5 (normal price $15) — grep, sed, awk, perl and ruby one-liners bundle * All Books Bundle (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/new_awk_relea...) is $12 (normal price $32) — all my 13 programming ebooks I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors. Happy learning :) --- Previous discussions: * Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15549318) — 478 points, Oct 2017, 116 comments * Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758217) — 539 points, April 2020, 48 comments

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