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Title: Sed & Awk by Dale Dougherty, Tim O'Reilly ISBN: 0937175595 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27
Rating: 5
Summary: Good intro to Sed and Awk, plus more
Comment: 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!
Rating: 4
Summary: You'll not regret this one!
Comment: My primarily profession is database administration on Windows NT/2000 platform so I'm pretty new to Unix tools. Several months ago I needed some inexpensive, yet powerful tools to manipulate some large text files for our data warehouse project -- basically I was looking for a way to avoid expensive commercial ETL tools. PERL was my first choice, but it seemed to me that learning curve is too steep for what I needed, so I ended with GNU sed and awk.
I was happy with the GNU version of Guide for Awk "Effective AWK Programming" written by one of the author of this book, Mr. Arnold D. Robbins -- but I needed some good reference for sed as well and this book was logical choice for me. Not only that it helped me to learn SED, now I'm using the book mostly as reference and user guide for awk. It's well written and will certainly satisfy both the advanced and the novice users.
The only objections that I have are examples at the end of the book. Not many readers will find them interesting and useful, especially chapter 12 Full-Featured Applications.
Overall good choice if you want to learn either of the two tools!
Rating: 4
Summary: Great introduction, mediocre reference
Comment: I was very interested in learning sed and awk, and so picked up this book. Like most O'Reilly titles, it is an excellent piece of work. I learned a great deal and was able to get started and pump out some useful code after spending some time with this book. However, I soon found that when it came to tackling some very difficult tasks with sed and awk, this book didn't seem to serve me very well as a reference. I have a feeling that sed and awk are not the sort of thing that one could learn with just one book; there are so many applications for these tools that one must choose what one wishes to do, and find the right books to supplement this excellent text.
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Title: Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition by Jeffrey, E. F. Friedl ISBN: 0596002890 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Learning the vi Editor (6th Edition) by Linda Lamb, Arnold Robbins ISBN: 1565924266 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition) by Bill Rosenblatt, Arnold Robbins ISBN: 0596001959 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Programming Perl (3rd Edition) by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant ISBN: 0596000278 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Effective awk Programming (3rd Edition) by Arnold Robbins, Michael Brennan ISBN: 0596000707 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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