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Summary: Good intro to Sed and Awk, plus more
Review: This book had far more information on Sed and Awk than I really wanted to read, but objectively speaking, this book did a fabulous job explaining how to use both. The idea of linking them together in one book seems odd, but the author did a pretty nice job utilizing both. I particularly liked the section on debugging awk because the techniques he explained are very applicable to program debugging in general. I also found the section on regular expressions very clearly written and easy to understand (the best I have seen thus far). I wish I had read this book sooner. Also, to the credit of this book, I saved quite a lot of time recently updating about 90 flat files in seconds using sed. Awk has proven quite useful recently in another project too. Thank you Dale and Arnold!
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Summary: Amazing..
Review: This book took me from a state of loathing and ignorance of awk, to a complete awk fanatic, nowadays most of my scripts have some awk in them somewhere. Use this book to learn about the tools, and keep it within reach of your command prompt and you will unlock the power of the tools discussed.
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Summary: A must have for the wannabe UNIX wizard
Review: This is a good book. Although I find some of the information that I need. There seems to be a fair amount that's concealed by the books approach to each topic.
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Summary: Good first book on Awk & Sed
Review: This is a great first book on awk and sed. It also has one of the clearest explanations of regular expressions I could find. I use it all the time in my database programming/data processing work. It has served me well. There are probably more advanced features of awk that are not covered in this book but for the price it is a great bargain. If you want to learn awk buy this book and you won't be disappointed. You can ignore the sections on sed if you like.
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Summary: Good first book on Awk & Sed
Review: This is a great first book on awk and sed. It also has one of the clearest explanations of regular expressions I could find. I use it all the time in my database programming/data processing work. It has served me well. There are probably more advanced features of awk that are not covered in this book but for the price it is a great bargain. If you want to learn awk buy this book and you won't be disappointed. You can ignore the sections on sed if you like.
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Summary: Another brilliant book from the O'Reilly crew.
Review: This is a typically great book from O'Reilly Press. I find this book to be invaluable when I need to look up how to do something with sed or awk. It takes you through the basics of sed and awk, shows you regular expression syntax and delves deeper into both programs. For sed it shows you all of the basic sed commands as well as many of the more advanced commands such as multiline pattern spaces. With awk it goes even deeper as awk is a more powerful program. It shows the basics for writing awk scripts then takes you into flow control, functions and debugging. I find the writing to be concise and clear with many examples to show you how it works in the real world. All in all it's a great book for the unix admin or programmer to have on their bookshelf.
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Summary: Another brilliant book from the O'Reilly crew.
Review: This is a typically great book from O'Reilly Press. I find this book to be invaluable when I need to look up how to do something with sed or awk. It takes you through the basics of sed and awk, shows you regular expression syntax and delves deeper into both programs. For sed it shows you all of the basic sed commands as well as many of the more advanced commands such as multiline pattern spaces. With awk it goes even deeper as awk is a more powerful program. It shows the basics for writing awk scripts then takes you into flow control, functions and debugging. I find the writing to be concise and clear with many examples to show you how it works in the real world. All in all it's a great book for the unix admin or programmer to have on their bookshelf.
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Summary: A necessity for every Unix System Administrator
Review: This is a well written technical book. It will lead you from the very basic to the most advance concept of sed & awk. It will first build a good foundation by explaining the basics of reg. exps. then gradually teach you how to apply it using the editors.
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Summary: if you are a sys admin you need this book
Review: 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.
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Summary: if you are a sys admin you need this book
Review: 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.
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