Product DescriptionFor people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. Most of the things that you can do with these programs can be done interactively with a text editor. However, using sed and awk can save many hours of repetitive work in achieving the same result.
To master sed and awk you must thoroughly understand UNIX regular expressions, and understand the syntax of sed and awk commands. This handbook treats regular expressions as a foundation for learning about sed and awk and contains a comprehensive treatment of sed and awk syntax. It emphasizes the kinds of practical problems that sed and awk can help users to solve, with many useful example scripts and programs.
Contents include:
A tutorial showing basic operations of sed and awk
Regular expression syntax and examples
Basic and advanced sed commands
Features of awk (plus gawk and nawk)
Common programming constructs
Advanced topics
User-contributed scripts
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - a great little book
I found understanding/writing sed/awk commands/scripts a daunting task until I bought this book. This book empowers you. I rate it at par with "the vi editor" from same publisher
Rating: - Can Replace All of Your SED & AWK Bookmarks (2ndEd)
This book is like a big tutorial series, packed with tons of applicable examples. It is not a reference, that's what the man pages are for, although the index if very good. In fact, the combination of the *BSD man pages and this book would give any man all the SED and AWK documentation he would ever need.
SED and AWK are these two very terse programs that, if you don't use them everyday, you tend to forget their syntax and functionality. I am not an everyday user. Before I bought this ... Read More
Rating: - Old, but Ok for the porpurse
If you want understand all the sed advanced commands, this book is for you !
I recommend using perl instead sed or awk
Rating: - Come for the sed, stay for the awk!
This book is a timeless classic, the information on sed is invaluable to anyone who regularly works with text files or streams (after all sed is short for stream editor). Not only is it very informative it's also a fun and easy read... You'll be seeing uses for sed almost every day once you learn how powerful it can be!
The last 1/2 or so is on awk and although it's also very well written and informative it's not quite as useful if you're already experienced with a high level language ... Read More
Rating: - Are you serious?
In a nutshell, if you don't have this book, you are probably not a serious programmer or system administrator.
Both sed and awk have been around for ages, and they are part of the fundamental toolkit of any Unix/Linux professional. Furthermore, there are versions available both for native Windows and for Linux-like environments under Windows (cygwin, MKS, mingw.)
If you are a Perl hacker, you probably use Perl for a lot of the tasks that would otherwise be performed with one of ... Read More
- a great little book
- Come for the sed, stay for the awk!
