Sed, Awk and Regular Expressions Pocket Reference

by Robbins, Arnold

• ISBN13: 9781565927292
• ISBN10: 156592729X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

The "sed and awk Pocket Reference" is a companion volume to "sed and awk 2nd Edition" and "UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition". This compact book offers handy reference 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

Introduction	p. 1
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 1
Matching Text	p. 2
Filenames Versus Patterns	p. 2
Metacharacters	p. 3
Metacharacters, Listed by Unix Program	p. 5
Examples of Searching	p. 7
The sed Editor	p. 10
Command-Line Syntax	p. 11
Syntax of sed Commands	p. 12
Group Summary of sed Commands	p. 13
Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands	p. 15
The awk Programming Language	p. 18
Command-Line Syntax	p. 20
Important gawk Options	p. 21
Profiling with pgawk	p. 23
Patterns and Procedures	p. 24
Built-in Variables	p. 26
Operators	p. 28
Variable and Array Assignment	p. 29
Octal and Hexadecimal Constants in gawk	p. 30
User-Defined Functions	p. 31
Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands	p. 32
Coprocesses and Sockets with gawk	p. 33
Implementation Limits	p. 34
Alphabetical Summary of awk Functions and Commands	p. 34
Internationalization with gawk	p. 44
Additional Resources	p. 45
Source Code	p. 45
Books	p. 46
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