Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsConventions used in this book; matching text; filenames versus patterns; metacharacters; metacharacters, listed by Unix program; examples of searching; the Sed editor; command-line syntax; syntax of Sed commands; group summary of Sed commands; alphabetical summary of Sed commands; the Awk programming language; command-line syntax; important Gawk options; profiling with PGAwk; patterns and procedures; built-in variables; operators variable and array assignment; octal and hexadecimal constants in GAwk; user-defined functions; group listing of Awk functions and commands; coprocesses and sockets with GAwk; implementation limits; alphabetical summary of Awk functions and commands; internationalization with GAwk; additional resources; source code books.
