I highly recommend The AWK Programming Language by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger[1][2]. It has a very similar style to The C Programming Language, also co-writ

I highly recommend The AWK Programming Language by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger[1][2]. It has a very similar style to The C Programming Language, also co-written by Kernighan. Even as a general book on programming, it is pretty good in that it presents the reader with useful exercises from simple text processing all the way up to more advanced database implementations. I would not recommend it as a first programming book, but it really covers how powerful the AWK language is in a way that is very accessible. 1. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/ http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/ 2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703101.The_awk_Programming_Language?from_search=true https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703101.The_awk_Programmi...