awk/sed scripting

[u856100]

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

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

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.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Check out :-

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

Paula

[Marcin Golembski_1]

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/

[Frederic Sevestre]

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

[BFA6]

Hi,

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

Hilary

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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