If you decide anyway to go with awk, I could recommend these:
- Awk Community Portal
http://awk.info/
- Awk Channel Wiki
http://awk.freeshell.org/
- comp.lang.awk FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/awk/faq/
- Awk (Introduction to)
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html
- An Awk Primer (A Guided Tour Of Awk)
http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html
- The GNU Awk User's Guide (Effective AWK Programming)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html
- Awk Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK
- Famous Awk Oneliners Explained:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-one...ined-part-one/ Part I: File spacing, Numbering and Calculations
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-one...ined-part-two/ Part II: Text Conversion and Substitutions
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-one...ed-part-three/ Part III: Selective Printing and Deleting of Certain Lines
I also agree with @ocicat about the books recomendation. 
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