Utilities and tools Books

Book SynopsisVim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. This beloved bestseller has been revised and updated to Vim 7.4 and includes two brand-new tips and five fully revised tips.A highly configurable, cross-platform text editor, Vim is a serious tool for programmers, web developers, and sysadmins who want to raise their game. No other text editor comes close to Vim for speed and efficiency; it runs on almost every system imaginable and supports most coding and markup languages.Learn how to edit text the "Vim way": complete a series of repetitive changes with The Dot Formula using one keystroke to strike the target, followed by one keystroke to execute the change. Automate complex tasks by recording your keystrokes as a macro. Discover the "very magic" switch that makes Vim's regular expression syntax more like Perl's. Build complex patterns by iterating on your search history. Search inside multiple files, then run Vim's substitute command on the result set for a project-wide search and replace. All without installing a single plugin! Two new tips explain how to run multiple ex commands as a batch and autocomplete sequences of words."Practical Vim, Second Edition" will show you new ways to work with Vim 7.4 more efficiently, whether you're a beginner or an intermediate Vim user. All this, without having to touch the mouse.What You Need: Vim version 7.4

Read more less

Book SynopsisFrom hand-forged axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader’s felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. American Axe pays tribute to this iconic instrument of settlement and industry, with rich history, stunning photography, and profiles of the most collectible vintage axes such as The Woodslasher, Keen Cutter, and True Temper Perfect. Combining his experiences as a forester, axe collector, and former competitive lumberjack, author Brett McLeod conveys the allure of this deceptively simple woodcutting implement and celebrates the resurging interest in its story and use.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe definitive, easy-to-follow guide to plumbing and heating repairs in your home.An extension of the international bestselling Collins Complete DIY Manual, this brand-new edition is packed with user-friendly photos and is fully updated with the latest information about tools, products and regulations.Whether repairing a leaking tap or installing a new shower, Collins Complete Plumbing and Heating is the indispensable tool to help you get the job done well and keep costs to a minimum.Contents include:Emergency repairsTaps, sinks and kitchen appliancesToilets, baths and showersBoilers and radiatorsIdentifying faults and maintenanceSafety tipsTools for the job

Read more less

Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.From cars to hair, there''s nothing that Dee can''t fix! But now she''s facing a new challenge, and she needs help finding the right tools.

Read more less

Book Synopsissed & awk describes two text processing programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer's toolbox. sed is a "stream editor" for editing streams of text that might be too large to edit as a single file, or that might be generated on the fly as part of a larger data processing step. The most common operation done with sed is substitution, replacing one block of text with another. awk is a complete programming language. Unlike many conventional languages, awk is "data driven" -- you specify what kind of data you are interested in and the operations to be performed when that data is found. awk does many things for you, including automatically opening and closing data files, reading records, breaking the records up into fields, and counting the records. While awk provides the features of most conventional programming languages, it also includes some unconventional features, such as extended regular expression matching and associative arrays. sed & awk describes both programs in detail and includes a chapter of example sed and awk scripts. This edition covers features of sed and awk that are mandated by the POSIX standard. This most notably affects awk, where POSIX standardized a new variable, CONVFMT, and new functions, toupper() and tolower(). The CONVFMT variable specifies the conversion format to use when converting numbers to strings (awk used to use OFMT for this purpose). The toupper() and tolower() functions each take a (presumably mixed case) string argument and return a new version of the string with all letters translated to the corresponding case. In addition, this edition covers GNU sed, newly available since the first edition. It also updates the first edition coverage of Bell Labs nawk and GNU awk (gawk), covers mawk, an additional freely available implementation of awk, and briefly discusses three commercial versions of awk, MKS awk, Thompson Automation awk (tawk), and Videosoft (VSAwk).Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Power Tools for Editing May You Solve Interesting Problems A Stream Editor A Pattern-Matching Programming Language Four Hurdles to Mastering sed and awk Chapter 2. Understanding Basic Operations Awk, by Sed and Grep, out of Ed Command-Line Syntax Using sed Using awk Using sed and awk Together Chapter 3. Understanding Regular Expression Syntax That's an Expression A Line-Up of Characters I Never Metacharacter I Didn't Like Chapter 4. Writing sed Scripts Applying Commands in a Script A Global Perspective on Addressing Testing and Saving Output Four Types of sed Scripts Getting to the PromiSed Land Chapter 5. Basic sed Commands About the Syntax of sed Commands Comment Substitution Delete Append, Insert, and Change List Transform Print Print Line Number Next Reading and Writing Files Quit Chapter 6. Advanced sed Commands Multiline Pattern Space A Case for Study Hold That Line Advanced Flow Control Commands To Join a Phrase Chapter 7. Writing Scripts for awk Playing the Game Hello, World Awk's Programming Model Pattern Matching Records and Fields Expressions System Variables Relational and Boolean Operators Formatted Printing Passing Parameters Into a Script Information Retrieval Chapter 8. Conditionals, Loops, and Arrays Conditional Statements Looping Other Statements That Affect Flow Control ArraysAn Acronym Processor System Variables That Are Arrays Chapter 9. Functions Arithmetic Functions String Functions Writing Your Own Functions Chapter 10. The Bottom Drawer The getline Function The close() Function The system() Function A Menu-Based Command Generator Directing Output to Files and Pipes Generating Columnar Reports Debugging Limitations Chapter 11. A Flock of awks Original awk Freely Available awks Commercial awks Epilogue Chapter 12. Full-Featured Applications An Interactive Spelling Checker Generating a Formatted Index Spare Details of the masterindex Program Chapter 13. A Miscellany of Scripts uutot.awk--Report UUCP Statistics phonebill--Track Phone Usage combine--Extract Multipart uuencoded Binaries mailavg--Check Size of Mailboxes adj--Adjust Lines for Text Files readsource--Format Program Source Files for troff gent--Get a termcap Entry plpr--lpr Preprocessor transpose--Perform a Matrix Transposition m1--Simple Macro Processor Appendix A. Quick Reference for sed Appendix B. Quick Reference for awk Appendix C. Supplement for Chapter 12 Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIt is the first book that I have read that makes STL quickly usable by working programmers Francis Glassborow, Chair of The Association of C & C++ Users (ACCU) STL for C++ programmers Leen Ammeraal The Standard Template Library (STL) provides many useful and generally applicable programming tools. This book combines reference material and a well-paced tutorial to get you past the basics quickly. Small, complete programs illustrate the key STL features such as containers, algorithms, iterators and function objects. A section is devoted to the new string data type. All STL algorithms are formally presented by their prototypes and then informally described to show how to use them in practice. Concepts are well illustrated with a large number of example programs all of which are available via ftp (for access details please refer to the preface of the book or Wiley''s website). Finally, special examples are given to explain the advanced notions of function objects and function adaptors, incTable of ContentsSTL for Beginners. More Algorithms and Containers. Sequence Containers. Associative Containers. Container Adaptors. Function Objects and Adaptors. Generic Algorithms. An Application: Very Large Numbers. Bibliography. Index.

Read more less

Book SynopsisAutomate your Linux system with Puppet, the popular configuration management framework. Through code samples and real-world examples, this concise introduction shows you how to use Puppet tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on your Linux servers.

Read more less

Book SynopsisJumpstarting books provide an avenue for makers to quickly master topical knowledge! Each book starts with instructions on how to install or initialize the hardware or software needed to reach the "Hello, World" stage of getting started! The second project in the book builds on the first to use more of the hardware or software's capabilities. Later projects expand the user's knowledge into lesser-known aspects of the topic. All Jumpstarting projects are for Makers -- they provide hands-on, real-world experience in making the hardware or software do what you want it to do!

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less