Programming and posix - February 2001

February 10, 2001
Solution Symposium
Page 82
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