Chapter 12. Full-Featured Applications
This chapter presents two complex applications that integrate most features of the awk programming language. The first program, spellcheck, provides an interactive interface to the UNIX spell program. The second application, masterindex, is a batch program for generating an index for a book or a set of books. Even if you are not interested in the particular application, you should study these larger programs to get a feel for the scope of the problems that an awk program can solve.
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