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sed & awk (2nd Edition)
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Author: Arnold Robbins, Dale Dougherty
List Price: $34.95
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ISBN: 1565922255
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (02 March, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 9,261
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
sed, awk ... useful tools
sed and awk typically get a bum rap from perl users. "why learn sed or awk when perl can do both?" yes, it can. and so much more.but what if you just need to print, say, the first field of a file? or just replace a few characters in a stream? what about the situations when you dont have perl handy (ie a freshly installed IRIX box)? the sed & awk book is *the* standard. it's not written by anyone famous or whatnot, but it does a fantastic job of covering the basics, the meat, and advanced uses of sed and awk (and variants). if you spend time on the command line and need to know a few quick tips, this is the book to have for sed and awk. you'll learn regexp material, how to use sed and awk and a bunch of useful routines. highly reccomended for UNIX shell geeks.
Rating: 4 out of 5
if you are a sys admin you need this book
This is the definitive book on both sed and awk. my only gripe is that it is a bit tedieous at times but that is because hte author doesn't assume any pre knowledge of the subject. A great book for new admins or seasoned hackers.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Not good
Unlike the other Oriely books, this one is a disappointment. There is just lot of text and not much examples. Also things are introduced out of sequence thus making it difficult to get things properly. The examples do not go from simple to difficult. Also there is much talk about troff nroff etc. and then people not familiar with these things get unnecessarily distracted. There are 6 chapters on sed but the amount of information is litte.
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