#461 sed & awk
Book notes - sed & awk 2nd Edition, by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins. First published November 8, 1990.
Notes
Contents
- 1: Power Tools for Editing
- May You Solve Interesting Problems
- A Stream Editor
- A Pattern-Matching Programming Language
- Four Hurdles to Mastering sed and awk
- 2: Understanding Basic Operations
- Awk, by Sed and Grep, out of Ed Command-Line Syntax
- Using sed
- Using awk
- Using sed and awk Together
- 3: Understanding Regular Expression Syntax
- That’s an Expression
- A Line-Up of Characters
- I Never Metacharacter I Didn’t Like
- 4: Writing sed Scripts
- Applying Commands in a Script
- A Global Perspective on Addressing
- Testing and Saving Output
- Four Types of sed Scripts
- Getting to the PromiSed Land
- 5: Basic sed Commands
- About the Syntax of sed Commands
- Comment
- Substitution
- Delete
- Append, Insert, and Change
- List
- Transform
- Print Line Number
- Next
- Reading and Writing Files
- Quit
- 6: Advanced sed Commands
- Multiline Pattern Space
- A Case for Study Hold That Line
- Advanced Flow Control Commands
- To Join a Phrase
- 7: Writing Scripts for awk
- Playing the Game
- Hello, World
- Awk’s Programming Model
- Pattern Matching
- Records and Fields
- Expressions
- System Variables
- Relational and Boolean Operators
- Formatted Printing
- Passing Parameters Into a Script
- Information Retrieval
- 8: Conditionals, Loops, and Arrays
- Conditional Statements
- Looping
- Other Statements That Affect Flow Control
- Arrays
- An Acronym Processor
- System Variables That Are Arrays
- 9: Functions
- Arithmetic Functions
- String Functions
- Writing Your Own Functions
- 10: The Bottom Drawer
- The getline Function The close() Function
- The system() Function
- A Menu-Based Command Generator
- Directing Output to Files and Pipes
- Generating Columnar Reports
- Debugging
- Limitations
- Invoking awk Using the #! Syntax
- 11: A Flock of awks
- Original awk
- Freely Available awks
- Commercial awks
- Epilogue
- 12: Full-Featured Applications
- An Interactive Spelling Checker
- Generating a Formatted Index
- Spare Details of the masterindex Program
- A Miscellany of Scripts
- uutot.awk—Report UUCP Statistics
- phonebill-Track Phone Usage
- combine-Extract Multipart uuencoded Binaries
- mailavg-Check Size of Mailboxes
- adj—Adjust Lines for Text Files
- readsource-Format Program Source Files for troff
- gent-Get a termcap Entry
- plpr—Ipr Preprocessor
- transpose—Perform a Matrix Transposition
- m1-Simple Macro Processor
- A: Quick Reference for sed
- B: Quick Reference for awk
- C: Supplement for Chapter 12
Source Code
Example sources are maintained on https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9781565922259/
Cloning to an example_source folder:
git clone https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9781565922259/ example_source
Credits and References
- sed & awk 2nd Edition