Books & Videos

sed and awk Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

Text Processing with Regular Expressions

By Arnold Robbins

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Release Date: February 2009

Pages: 64

Read on Safari with a 10-day trial

Start your free trial now Buy on Amazon

Where’s the cart? Now you can get everything on Safari. To purchase books, visit Amazon or your favorite retailer. Questions? See our FAQ or contact customer service:

1-800-889-8969 / 707-827-7019
support@oreilly.com

View/Submit Errata

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.

Chapter 1 sed & awk Pocket Reference
1. Introduction
2. Conventions Used in This Book
3. Matching Text
4. The sed Editor
5. The awk Programming Language
6. Additional Resources

Books & Videos

sed and awk Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

Text Processing with Regular Expressions

Read on Safari with a 10-day trial

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 sed & awk Pocket Reference

Introduction

Conventions Used in This Book

Matching Text

The sed Editor

The awk Programming Language

Additional Resources