Product Description

This is a 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. This 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; and a listing of resources for Sed and Awk users.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71396 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 52 pages

From the Publisher
The sed & awk Pocket Reference is a handy, quick reference guide to frequently used functions, commands, and regular expressions used for day-to-day text processing needs. This book is a companion to both sed & awk, Second Edition and Effective awk Programming, Third Edition.

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

pocket version of seminal work
suprisingly you can learn awk from this tiny book. synacticly awk can fit on 2-3 a4 pages anyway. for a good grounding in the approach and feel of these tools get the classic o'reilly tome, but for a goodish intro, refresher or reference this is excellent too

Brilliant
To become proficient in any powerful programming language you really have to emerse yourself in it for some time, and sed and awk are absolutely in that catagory. This little book is therefore a vital aid to short-cutting that process allwoing you to make the most of all the power there is in those utilities. Vital for both beginners and seasoned veterans.