sed & awk Pocket Reference

Conventions used in this book; matching text; filenames versus patterns; metacharacters; metacharacters, listed by Unix program; examples of searching; the Sed editor; command-line syntax; syntax of Sed commands; group summary of Sed commands; alphabetical summary of Sed commands; the Awk programming language; command-line syntax; important Gawk options; profiling with PGAwk; patterns and procedures; built-in variables; operators variable and array assignment; octal and hexadecimal constants in GAwk; user-defined functions; group listing of Awk functions and commands; coprocesses and sockets with GAwk; implementation limits; alphabetical summary of Awk functions and commands; internationalization with GAwk; additional resources; source code books.

Arnold Robbins is a professional programmer and technical author who has worked with Unix systems since 1980 and has been using AWK since 1987. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for AWK. Arnold is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. He is coauthor of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor.