A practical tutorial that helps the reader understand the standard text processing tools, sed and awk, found in every distribution of LINUX and UNIX operating systems. Sed and awk are used to automate text processing, system administration and Web page creation tasks. Using LINUX as the teaching platform, the book shows how to program in the awk language and how to use gawk (the GNU awk implementation) and sed, the streams editor. Practical examples and step-by-step tutorials help the user to become proficient in writing awk and sed programs and shell scripts. Topics include quick searching and replacing text, creating simple macro packages, filtering and validating data, automatic text processing, report generation, and automating Web site generation.
- ISBN10 0672317370
- ISBN13 9780672317378
- Publish Date September 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Macmillan Computer Publishing (a Pearson Education company)
- Imprint Sams Publishing
- Pages 400
- Language English