sed and awk Pocket Reference

Text Processing with Regular Expressions

By: Arnold Robbins

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20 June 2002 | Edition Number 2

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This is a reference guide to the information presented in the larger volumes. It presents a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching, and summaries of Sed and Awk. This edition has expanded coverage of Gawk (GNU Awk), and includes sections on: an overview of Sed and Awk's command line syntax; alphabetical summaries of commands, including Nawk and Gawk; profiling with PGawk; coprocesses and sockets with Gawk; internationalization with Gawk; and a listing of resources for Sed and Awk users.

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Introduction	p. 1
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 1
Matching Text	p. 2
Filenames Versus Patterns	p. 2
Metacharacters	p. 3
Metacharacters, Listed by Unix Program	p. 5
Examples of Searching	p. 7
The sed Editor	p. 10
Command-Line Syntax	p. 11
Syntax of sed Commands	p. 12
Group Summary of sed Commands	p. 13
Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands	p. 15
The awk Programming Language	p. 18
Command-Line Syntax	p. 20
Important gawk Options	p. 21
Profiling with pgawk	p. 23
Patterns and Procedures	p. 24
Built-in Variables	p. 26
Operators	p. 28
Variable and Array Assignment	p. 29
Octal and Hexadecimal Constants in gawk	p. 30
User-Defined Functions	p. 31
Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands	p. 32
Coprocesses and Sockets with gawk	p. 33
Implementation Limits	p. 34
Alphabetical Summary of awk Functions and Commands	p. 34
Internationalization with gawk	p. 44
Additional Resources	p. 45
Source Code	p. 45
Books	p. 46
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