<div><p>Written by Arnold Robbins, Unix expert and lead developer of <i>gawk</i>, this thoroughly revised book covers the classic <i>awk</i> programming language used by system administrators, programmers, and webmasters to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code.</p><p>This book also serves the official documentation for <i>gawk</i> 4.1, the GNU version now considered the awk industry standard—available by default on Linux and nearly every Unix-like system.</p></div>