{"id":230,"date":"2008-07-16T18:21:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T22:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.databook.bz\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2008-07-16T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T22:23:37","slug":"the-awk-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=230","title":{"rendered":"The awk Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awk is a very powerful command line tool, but it is also a complete programing language designed especially for processing text one line at a time. It can do far more than just process text, however and the links to some IBM documents below are a wonderful tutorial that succinctly covers much of what this powerful language can do &#8211; and far better than I can.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Awk by Example Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/linux\/library\/l-awk1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Awk By Example &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Awk by Example - Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/linux\/library\/l-awk2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Awk By Example &#8211; Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Awk by Example - Part 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/linux\/library\/l-awk3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Awk By Example &#8211; Part 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/linux\/library\/l-awk1.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awk is a very powerful command line tool, but it is also a complete programing language designed especially for processing text one line at a time. It can do far more than just process text, however and the links to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=230\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":231,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}