AWK & SED Complete Reference

[Ranjith_5]

Hi Friends,

I am searching for a complete reference for AWK and SED. I tried a lot in www.google.com and ITRC forums as well. But all I got was only very brief docs and tips.

Anyone can help me in finding an elaborated documentation with a link for the same or share any docs? Sure you are going to get full PTS if the doc covers my area of interests.

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Syam

[Muthukumar_5]

Use the followings,

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/sedawk.html

http://www.geocities.com/kmuthu_gct/sed_awk_tips.html

http://builder.com.com/5100-6372_14-1050917.html

More read awk,sed man page word by word.

HTH.

[Ranjith_5]

Muthu Anna,

I have already gone through, such tips. I need a document in detail about the same. I will need to write a some complicated scripts some times. So I am planning to learn in deep. So any docs available with you?

regards,
Syam

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Don't do it!
Do yourself a favor and learn PERL instead!



2c

Hein.

[Ranjith_5]

Hein,

I dont have a strong programming background. I rate myself as a beginner in programming. So can I start with Perl?

regards,
Syam

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

the awk language was written by Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan. They also wrote a good book about it.

If you search amazon you will find this book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/020107981X/qid=1106291867/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/104-1131083-0285552?v=glance&s=books

Some years ago i used a older version of this book and it helped me a lot.

But if you need more then field orientated (awk) and line orientated (sed) programming. Then i would go for pearl, which can everything sed and awk can do and a lot more.

Regards

Stefan

[Ravi_8]

Hi

refer some unix shell programming books,

[Ranjith_5]

Friends,

I managed myself to find out lot of free reference in the following place.

http://web.info.com/_1_OEETYD02NSSEFF__infocom.us2/search/web/Awk%2BManual/1/15/1/-/1/0/1/1/1/1?&cmp=1597&tpxnws=1

Now I am searching for SED.


regards,
Syam

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

I agree with Hein: go for Perl.

But on Unix you definitely need some basic skills of AWK & SED. Don't worry about SED, if you know VI, then you know probably enough about SED.

regards,
Thierry.

[Ranjith_5]

Can anyone get me online manuals/PDFs of SED?

regards,
Syam