Best reference / crib sheet for AWK

Question

In a series of similar questions, what is the best AWK reference you've ever seen?

If there isn't really one (I've yet to find the grail), perhaps we could compile one in a separate question.

Answer 1

Whenever I needed to know something about AWK I always went to my copy of UNIX in a Nutshell. Now I see that there is a SED/AWK in a Nutshell book and pocket guide. The former was enough for what I needed. Haven't used the latter two.

Answer 2

The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger is the best. The initials of the author's names should tell you why...

Answer 3

This reference card PDF is pretty comprehensive for a crib sheet, yet it's concise enough to allow you to find what you need quickly. It also includes information on the mawk and gawk implementations.

Answer 4

I would recommend Effective AWK Programming by Arnold Robbins. You can get free pdf copy here.

Answer 5

I find this site to be useful (it hasn't let me down yet):

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html

I also find this Cookbook style site quite inspirational:

http://student.northpark.edu/pemente/awk/awk1line.txt

Hope these help.

Answer 6

a database containing week_of days,veg.name,price write a program in awk to calculate average of each vegetable,for calculating take the highest price in the day(it is sale more than 1 times in same day) in the formate

veg.name average ....... ....... ....... .......