sed and awk Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
by Arnold Robbins

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The "sed & awk Pocket Reference" is a companion volume to "sed & awk, Second Edition, Unix in a Nutshell, Third Edition," and "Effective awk Programming, Third Edition," This new 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

A listing of resources for sed and awk users

This small book is a handy 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.

Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native now happily living in Israel, is a professional programmer and technical author and coauthor of various O'Reilly Unix titles. He has been working with Unix systems since 1980, and currently maintains gawk and its documentation.

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