sed & awk

Dougherty, Dale; Robbins, Arnold

ISBN 10: 1565922255 / ISBN 13: 9781565922259

Published by O'Reilly Media, 1997

Seller Inventory # 1565922255-4-35831250

Synopsis:

Explains the progression in Unix from grep to sed and awk, describes how to write sed scripts, covers common programming constructs, and details awk's built-in functions

About the Author: Dale Dougherty is president and CEO of Songline Studios, a leading web publishing company. He is editor and publisher of Web Review (webreview.com), an innovative online magazine for web site developers. Prior to Songline, Dougherty developed the Global Network Navigator (GNN) and was the founding editor for O'Reilly's Nutshell Handbooks (R). Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has been working with UNIX systems since 1980, when he was intoduced 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. The documentation is available from the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org) and has also been published by SSC (http://www.ssc.com) as "Effective AWK Programming." He is also co-author 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: sed & awk
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fair
Edition: 2nd Edition