sed and awk Pocket Reference

The sed, awk, and Regular Expressions Pocket Reference is a companion volume to sed & awk, 2nd Edition, and Unix in a Nutshell. This small book is a handy reference guide to the information presented in the larger volumes, presenting a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching, and summaries of sed and awk.

This handy book is an indispensable reference to information presented in O'Reilly's larger volumes, and is a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching.

The "sed & awk Pocket Reference" is a companion volume to "sed & awk 2nd Edition" and "UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition". This compact book offers handy reference 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, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has worked with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. He has been a heavy AWK user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of AWK. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for AWK. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. He is also coauthor of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor. Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in Israel.