On Mon, Oct 31, 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On 2005-10-30 15:56, K?vesd?n G?bor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I concur. The 20 pages on sed are probably part of what you
>>> want. It doesn't answer your "besides..." however. Perhaps
>>> someone else can help there. Here's a link to O'Reilly:
>>>
>>> http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf
>>
>> It is a really such a book, that I should read. Not only the
>> sed part, but the entire book seems interesting and useful.
>> Thanks.
>
>Another very good book that introduces sed and other utilities
>that are powerful tools in the toolchain of a UNIX user, is the
>still classic book of Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike:
>
> The UNIX Programming Environment
> by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike.
> Prentice Hall, Inc., 1984.
> ISBN 0-13-937681-X (paperback), 0-13-937699-2 (hardback).
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/
>
>It's a bit old now, but some of the concepts it introduces are,
>in my opinion, central and essential to the every day work of a
>UNIX user.
I'll second that recommendation (I mentioned this in my original
post on this subject :-).
Looking through about 12 feet of Unix books beside me, about the
only other that jumps out at me is (I still do a fair amount of
documentation using vi and groff :-).
Document Formatting and Typesetting on the Unix System
Narain Gehani
ISBN 0-9615336-0-9
Bill
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