The "sed & awk Pocket Reference" is a companion volume to "sed & awk 2nd Edition" and "UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition". This compact book offers handy reference to the information presented in the larger volumes. It presents a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching, and summaries of "sed" and "awk".
For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed on one or more files, to simplify the task of performing the same edits on multiple files, and to write conversion programs.The sed & awk Pocket Reference is a companion volume to sed & awk and Unix in a Nutshell. This small book is a handy reference guide to the information the larger volumes, presenting a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching, and summaries of sed and awk.
Introduction Conventions Matching Text The sed Editor The awk
Programming Language
Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native now happily living in Israel, is a professional programmer and technical author. Arnold is the co-author of the second edition of O'Reilly's sed & awk, the sixth edition of Learning the vi Editor, and the third edition of Unix in a Nutshell. He has been working with UNIX systems since 1980, and currently maintains gawk (GNU awk) and its documentation.
