[ed2417]

I agree , great book. Have you checked the price lately?

[telemachos]

Luckily, I don't need to: I picked it up from Amazon (university library sell-off) after silentbicycle recommended it here some time back.

(You made me curious: there are used copies at Amazon starting at around $6.00[1].)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/020107981X/ref=dp_olp...

[pkrumins]

I wrote an e-book on Awk two months ago:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-book/

It teaches Awk through many practical examples, so called one-liners, that are small and short programs that just do one task. Such as joining lines, printing lines matching a pattern, summing up numbers on lines, converting text, etc.