Welcome to my AWK Scripting Page and Hints Why AWK scripting? AWK is an excellent filter and report writer. Many UNIX utilities generates rows and columns of information. AWK is an excellent tool for processing these rows and columns, and is easier to use AWK than most conventional programming languages. It can be considered to be a pseudo-C interpretor, as it understands the same arithmatic operators as C. AWK also has string manipulation functions, so it can search for particular strings and modify the output . AWK also has associative arrays, which are incredible useful, and is a feature most computing languages lack. Associative arrays can make a complex problem a trivial exercise. This scripting manual is not a complete description of the AWK programming language. Instead I will discuss some of the points I realize interesting from my point of view. My goal with this manual is to have a fast interface to remember some of the hints I learned and to have a quick reference to a lot of useful hints when scripting in a Unix/Linux Shell. Most of the examples will work on the most used shells, but as I use Korn/BASH Shell in a daily basis, then all the code examples had been tested in practice. To understand this manual is required that you understand the basics of Unix and you have some basics programming skills.     Use the menu to the left as a guide through the topics. Reg / Tonyex, tonyex[at]yahoo.com