This handy book is an indispensable reference to information presented in O'Reilly's larger volumes, and is a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching.
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, Second Edition, Unix in a Nutshell, Third Edition, and Effective awk Programming, Third Edition. This new edition has expanded coverage of gawk (GNU awk), and includes sections on:
- An overview of sed and awk s command line syntax
- Alphabetical summaries of commands, including nawk and gawk
- Profiling with pgawk
- Coprocesses and sockets with gawk
- Internationalization with gawk
- A listing of resources for sed and awk users
This small book is a handy reference guide 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.Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native now happily living in Israel, is a professional programmer and technical author and coauthor of various O'Reilly Unix titles. He has been working with Unix systems since 1980, and currently maintains gawk and its documentation.
This handy book is an indispensable reference to information presented in O'Reilly's larger volumes, and is a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching.
Conventions used in this book; matching text; filenames versus patterns;
metacharacters; metacharacters, listed by Unix program; examples of
searching; the Sed editor; command-line syntax; syntax of Sed commands; group
summary of Sed commands; alphabetical summary of Sed commands; the Awk
programming language; command-line syntax; important Gawk options; profiling
with PGAwk; patterns and procedures; built-in variables; operators variable
and array assignment; octal and hexadecimal constants in GAwk; user-defined
functions; group listing of Awk functions and commands; coprocesses and
sockets with GAwk; implementation limits; alphabetical summary of Awk
functions and commands; internationalization with GAwk; additional resources;
source code books.
Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has worked with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. He has been a heavy AWK user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of AWK. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for AWK. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. He is also coauthor of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor. Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in Israel.
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