Yes, definitely. The first three chapters would be more than enough for that: 1) An Awk Tutorial, 2) Awk in Action, and 3) Exploratory Data Analysis. For most p

Yes, definitely. The first three chapters would be more than enough for that: 1) An Awk Tutorial, 2) Awk in Action, and 3) Exploratory Data Analysis. For most people who just want to use AWK for one-liners on the command line, you can stop there. The rest of the chapters are about writing larger (still small! but not one-liner) programs in AWK to create reports, little languages, and experiment with algorithms.