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sed, awk and Regular Expressions Pocket Reference

By Arnold Robbins
January 2000
Pages: 56
ISBN 10: 1-56592-729-X | ISBN 13: 9781565927292

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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 in the larger volumes, presenting a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching, and summaries of sed and awk.
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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.

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"[Consumers] will find the fine 'pocket references' produced by O'Reilly to be compact and affordable."
-- James Cox, The Computer Shelf: Midwest Book Review

Reader reviews from sed & awk (2nd Edition) on Amazon.com (overall review ranking of four-and-a-half stars):

"Amaze & Astound your workmates. Simple yet powerful commands, you'll wonder how you ever did without it." --trustno1@ozemail.com.au February 25, 1999

"A necessity for every Unix System Administrator. This is a well-written technical book. It will lead you from the very basic to the most advance concept of sed & awk. It will first build a good foundation by explaining the basics of regular expressions, then gradually teach you how to apply it using the editors." --amazon.com "Great book for beginners, tends to focus a bit on the non-programmer. However, it is revealing, showing you how to automatically edit things you usually do manually. Could have used some exercises, and some special problems at the end of each chapter, so you could practice what you learned in that chapter. Great book otherwise." - mjuarez@geocities.com from Guatemala, September 17, 1998

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