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Book Synopsis
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.

Table of Contents
Conventions 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.

sed awk Pocket Reference

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      Publisher O'Reilly Media
      Published 16 July 2002
      ISBN-13 9780596003524
      978-0596003524
      ISBN-10 0596003528
      Also in:
      Computing Operating systems

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Conventions 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.

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