Teach Yourself SED and AWK in 24 Hours

Sed and Awk, consistent-selling book topics for over 10 years, are data manipulation tools used in UNIX and LINUX. But they are so complex and have a language associated with them that they are in another sense programming languages. Sed and Awk are frequently used by UNIX and LINUX programmers, webmasters, and administrators to automate quick searching, replacing or deletion of text, generating reports, and the automation of tasks.A fast, practical and effective tutorial book for the reader who wants to understand the standard text processing tools, sed and awk found in every distribution of LINUX and UNIX operating systems to automate text processing, system administration and web page creation tasks. Using LINUX as the teaching platform, Sams Teach Yourself Sed and Awk in 24 Hours teaches the reader to program in the awk language and how to use gawk (the GNU awk implementation) and sed, the streams editor. Lots of practical examples and step-by-step tutorials help the readers of this book quickly 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
-- Automating Web site generation