Programming and posix - April 2002

April 3, 2002
Solution Symposium
Page 83
hp e3000
programming
and posix
awk programming - /bin/awk
• powerful regexp-based pattern matching and string
manipulation
• great for file parsing and reformatting
• specify search patterns and associated actions
• full if-then-else logic and more
• better performance in certain applications compared to
the POSIX shell because no forking will be done