A walk through AWK

This tutorial on AWK is intended for readers who have a general familiarity with UNIX*, and who have at least a rudimentary knowledge of programming in some procedural language.AWK is an interpretive programming language, which makes it useful for prototyping. Primary applications of AWK are information retrieval, report writing, and data manipulation.AWK is often used as a special purpose information processing language - many of whose capabilities are easily accessible to non-programmers. We present it as a programming language - with added capabilities - particularly useful for rapid prototyping.