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sed and awk

sed and awk Author: Dale Dougherty Arnold Robbins Publisher: O'Reilly Published: 1997 Pages: 407

sed and awk

sed and awk Chapters

sed and awk Chapters

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 Metacharacters 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
   • 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
    • Debgging
    • Limitations
    • Invoking awk Using the #! Syntax
11. A Flock of awks
    • Orignal 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
13. 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 : lpr Preporcessor
    • transpose : Perform a Matrix Tranposition
    • m1 : Simple Macro Processor

sed and awk Appendices

1. Quick Reference for sed
2. Quick Reference for awk
3. Supplement for Chapter 12
4. Index