mikepea / awk_tawk

Lightning talk on how awe[k]some AWK is, in particular a review of The AWK Programming Language

awk_tawk

Presentation on how great AWK is, including a review of The AWK Programming Language

Also includes a presentation tool, written in AWK. Eating own dog food or what!

SS=1 awk -f ./present.awk slides.txt

... where SS optionally gives the starting slide number.

Hit enter to advance slides. PRs welcome.

Notes and References

Dennis Richie on early Unix history: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html

Doug McIlroy Interview: https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/precis/mcilroy.htm

1978 Awk Paper - 'Awk -- A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition) (1978)': http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.31.1299

Handy Awk cheat sheet: http://www.catonmat.net/download/awk.cheat.sheet.pdf

Archive.org link to The Awk Programming Language PDF: https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf

And a nice list of one-liners: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/awk1line.txt

Karabiner Elements - makes it possible to control this presentation with a clicker (that emulates a keyboard): https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/