AWK Workshop / Discussion - April 11 - 23, 2026

 * what: an informal exploration of plain AWK, aka "new AWK"
 * where: SDF.org - both pcom ("awk" room) and irc.sdf.org ("#awk")
 * when: Saturdays, 10-11am MDT ; Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6-7pm MDT

Though primarilly for [1]SDF members*, there will be parallel
discussions on IRC.

 * new, pre-validated members can also participate

 [>>> don't know {,e,p,x}com ? => read the tutorial [0] <<<]

a loose conversational agenda..

 * Day 1: basic intro, pattern-action, BEGIN / END blocks, Unix OS
   interactions
 * Day 2: pattern matching via reg. expressions , comparisons with
   sed(1) & grep(1)
 * Day 3: AWK builtins and defaults, basic IO, printf()
 * Day 4: expressions, variables & coercion , strings, math
 * Day 5: getline() & user-defined functions
 * Day 6: all about arrays

AWK workshop reference documents:

 * [2]Classic Shell Scripting, C.9 (AWK) [PDF]
 * [3]AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language [PDF]
 * [4]POSIX AWK spec [PDF]
 * [5]FSF Gnu AWK reference card [PDF]

additional AWK links:

 * [6]The AWK Programming Language, 2nd. ed. (One True AWK)
 * [7]Gawk: Effective AWK Programming
 * [8]The Open Group (POSIX) AWK specification
 * [9]AWK Live ReGex editor!
 * [10]Michael Herbst's Intro to AWK Programming course
 * [11]Bruce Barnett's AWK tutorial
 * [12]comp.lang.awk FAQ
 * [13]AWK-related Wiki (SDF hosted)

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References:

[00] https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=com
[01] https://SDF.org/?join
[02] https://rawtext.club/~woog/misc/Classic_Shell_Scripting-C9-Just_Enough_AWK_to_be_Dangerous.pdf
[03] https://rawtext.club/~woog/misc/AWK-A_Pattern_Scanning_and_Processing_Language.pdf
[04] https://rawtext.club/~woog/misc/POSIX_awk.pdf
[05] https://rawtext.club/~woog/misc/FSF_awkcard.pdf
[06] https://awk.dev/
[07] https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
[08] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html
[09] https://awk.js.org/
[10] https://michael-herbst.com/teaching/introduction-to-awk-programming-2016/
[11] https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html
[12] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/awk/faq/
[13] http://awk.freeshell.org/