Read the AWK section of the article. It covers about 90% of AWK, but in condensed form. For using AWK, try the resources linked at the bottom of the article,

Read the AWK section of the article. It covers about 90% of AWK, but in condensed form. For using AWK, try the resources linked at the bottom of the article, like Eric Pement's one-liners and Bruce Barnett's page: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt The man page for awk is pretty good too.