Book description
sed & awk describes two text processing programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer's toolbox. sed is a "stream editor" for editing streams of text that might be too large to edit as a single file, or that might be generated on the fly as part of a larger…
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1 author picked sed & awk as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
After using sed and awk for years in ad hoc one-liners I'd either Googled, or been given I decided to study them properly.
Reading this book was not time wasted, as I saw how powerful these two tools could be, and have used them ever since. From the serious to the whimsical, each section concisely teaches you something significant.
I haven't read it in years, and I'm going to read it again straight after writing this!
From Ian's list on becoming a Linux command line ninja.
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