Sed howto

Bill Campbell freebsd at celestial.com
Mon Oct 31 08:49:03 PST 2005


On Mon, Oct 31, 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On 2005-10-30 15:56, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor.kovesdan at t-hosting.hu> wrote:
>>> I concur.  The 20 pages on sed are probably part of what you
>>> want.  It doesn't answer your "besides..." however.  Perhaps
>>> someone else can help there.  Here's a link to O'Reilly:
>>> 
>>> http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf
>>
>> It is a really such a book, that I should read. Not only the
>> sed part, but the entire book seems interesting and useful.
>> Thanks.
>
>Another very good book that introduces sed and other utilities
>that are powerful tools in the toolchain of a UNIX user, is the
>still classic book of Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike:
>
>    The UNIX Programming Environment
>    by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike.
>    Prentice Hall, Inc., 1984.
>    ISBN 0-13-937681-X (paperback), 0-13-937699-2 (hardback).
>    http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/
>
>It's a bit old now, but some of the concepts it introduces are,
>in my opinion, central and essential to the every day work of a
>UNIX user.

I'll second that recommendation (I mentioned this in my original
post on this subject :-).

Looking through about 12 feet of Unix books beside me, about the
only other that jumps out at me is (I still do a fair amount of
documentation using vi and groff :-).

Document Formatting and Typesetting on the Unix System
	Narain Gehani
	ISBN 0-9615336-0-9

Bill
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