Probably a good book, but it serves a way different purpose than this article which is more of a gateway drug for newbies like myself who have never worked with awk before and don't quite understand the value-add.
I really enjoyed this article, because now that I have a sampling of the class of problems that awk can help me with, I am more likely to use it. And it only took 10 minutes to get this overview. My brain is already buzzing with ideas on how I can use this with gron[1] that was mentioned a few days ago on HN.
We all need a compelling reason for a tool before investing the time for whatever Bible may exist, so "just grab" the Bible first instead isn't the most helpful advice :) But I do appreciate you flagging it!
I really enjoyed this article, because now that I have a sampling of the class of problems that awk can help me with, I am more likely to use it. And it only took 10 minutes to get this overview. My brain is already buzzing with ideas on how I can use this with gron[1] that was mentioned a few days ago on HN.
We all need a compelling reason for a tool before investing the time for whatever Bible may exist, so "just grab" the Bible first instead isn't the most helpful advice :) But I do appreciate you flagging it!
[1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
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P.S. For those who liked the writing style of this tutorial, you may enjoy these other ones on the IBM website by the same author Daniel Robbins: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/libraryview.j...