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From: szmyd@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Bill Szmyd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a Book about awk & sed
Message-ID: <13820001@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 90 02:53:43 GMT
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> 
>   I'm looking for a good book as introduction into awk, sed and similar
>   unix tools. The bookstores around have hundreds of books around unix
>   but I found nothing which concentrates on these powerful utilities.
> 
>   I'll post a summary if there is interest.
> 
>   Thanks  Markus
> 
> -- 
>   Markus Baertschi				| markus@cernvm.cern.ch
>   CERN (European Particle Research Center)
>   Geneva, Switzerland
> ----------

Try the recent update on AWK from Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, "The AWK
Programming Language".  Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.  I
paid about $22 (US) for it.  Doesn't cover SED but is great for AWK.

Note that to run some of the constructions they use you need the new
version of AWK.  On some machines this is found as NAWK.

-- 
	Bill Szmyd
	Software Engineering Systems Division
	Hewlett-Packard
	Ft. Collins, CO