Sams teach yourself Sed and Awk in 24 hours

A practical tutorial that helps the reader understand the standard text processing tools, sed and awk, found in every distribution of LINUX and UNIX operating systems.

Sed and awk are used to automate text processing, system administration and Web page creation tasks.

Using LINUX as the teaching platform, the book shows how to program in the awk language and how to use gawk (the GNU awk implementation) and sed, the streams editor.

Practical examples and step-by-step tutorials help the user to become proficient in writing awk and sed programs and shell scripts.

Topics include quick searching and replacing text, creating simple macro packages, filtering and validating data, automatic text processing, report generation, and automating Web site generation.