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awk/sed scripting

u856100 — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:18:35 GMT

Can anyone suggest a good introductory book in UNIX scripting (I know HP offer a course in this)? I have been using Java for a year now so I am familiar with programming concepts and the basics.

I haven't started looking yet but thought where better to start!

cheers

John

Re: awk/sed scripting

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:30:09 GMT

Hi John,

For awk/sed specifically, I use O'Reilly's book:

Title: sed & awk
Authors: Dougherty & Robbins
ISBN: 1-56592-225-5

Lots of examples, tutorials, etc.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: awk/sed scripting

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:31:03 GMT

Hi
Check out :-

http://www.kornshell.com/doc/

Paula

Re: awk/sed scripting

Marcin Golembski_1 — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:25:10 GMT

If you like Java, Perl might be worth looking at...
Check O'Reilly's "Learning Perl"
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
and "Programming Perl"
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/

Re: awk/sed scripting

Frederic Sevestre — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:31:20 GMT

Hi John,

I think the O'Reilly's is the best but the
"UNIX awk and sed programmer's interactive workbook " from Peter Patsis (Prentice Hall ) is quiet good to.
Regards

Re: awk/sed scripting

BFA6 — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:01:07 GMT

Hi,

The Korn Shell by Anatole Olczak, and as mentioned before O'Reilly's sed & awk

Hilary

Re: awk/sed scripting

A. Clay Stephenson — Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:49:28 GMT

Hi:

If I were starting out again, I would learn only a modicum of shell programming and then master Perl. It combines the best features of awk, sed, grep, and the shell. It is by far the most powerfull scripting language in that sockets, ipcs, ioctl, and virtually anything else that can be done in C can be done in perl. It's now my weapon of choice. The O'Reilly Perl Books (the Camel books) are hard to beat.

Regards, Clay