good awk/sed reference book needed 1

[dbmsguy]

Can anyone suggest a good awk/sed reference book. the only one i have is the o'reilly book. it's ok as a learning tool, but I find it is bad as a reference book

any suggestions would be appreciated (especially if it included the isbn)

Paul

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[marsd]

Yeah,
I agree it is bad.
Try ssc's book "effective awk programming" by
Arnold Robbins.

 

[Krunek]

Hi, dbmsguy!

Some books about awk and related to awk:

sed & awk, 2nd Edition, by Dale Dougherty & Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly, 1997

sed & awk Pocket Reference, by Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly, 2000

Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition, by Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly, 2001

Effective AWK Programming: A User's Guide for GNU Awk, Edition 1.0.3, iUniverse.com, 2000

The AWK Programming Language, by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger, Addison-Wesley, 1988.

UNIX, AWK and SED Programmer's Interactive Workbook, Peter Patsis, Prentice Hall, 1998

Mastering Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, O'Reilly, 1997

Maybe helps you.

Bye!

KP.

 

[dbmsguy]

most helpful information, thankyou all for your response. Paul

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