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Interpreters

• Online Interpreter
• MAWK
• Go-AWK -- Supports utf-8 by default!
• The One true awk
• busybox awk
• GNU Awk

Windows

• GOW Lightweight alternative to cygwin. comes with awk.exe
• AT&T Toolkit
• AT&T Toolkit Uwin
• acme-sac Contains an awk.exe as well as many inferno utilities
• AT&T UWin

Wrappers

• awkenough
• runawk

Tutorials

• awk.help
• snipcademy introduction to awk
• learn gawk by example
• Learn X in Y Minutes
• Apple awkward

Articles

• What's the most robust way to parse csv using awk Stack overflow answer
• Using awk to parse 25tb of data
• CLI can be 235x faster than your hadoop cluster
• Using AWK to parse an html file

Modules - Libraries including many functions

• e36freak's awk libs
• awkenough library.awk

Books

• Gawk
• The awk POSIX Specification

Formats

JSON

• gron
• jdva
• JSON.awk
• jawk

CSV

• Stack Overflow answer by Ed Morton
• e36freak csv module
• lorance

HTML/XML

• The world wide web consortiums HTML XML Utilities

troff

• man2md

Net

IRC

• ii A FIFO based irc client which you can use any language easily
• jj An evolution of ii
• rhawk
• awk IRC bot

Videos

• [University of Nottingham] Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
• [Computerphile] Essentials: Brian Kernighan on Associative Arrays - Computerphile
• [Gary Explains] EVERYONE Needs to Learn a Little Bit of AWK!

Interesting things

• lzw decompressor in awk
• Patsie's first person shooter in gawk!
• Patsie's Draw 3D objects on your terminal with awk
• Everything by Patsie
• lisp interpreter
• dc written in awk

Info

• The awk wiki archive
• The awk channel wiki
• #awk faq