On Jan 12, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
It sounds like you could use a tutorial on Unix text processing and
command line tools, specifically, one which addresses pipes and
redirection, as well as the standard text tools (grep, cut, sed, awk,
etc.). While Paul's recommendation about the O'Reilly regular
expressions book is valid, I suspect it might be a little too focused
on regex's and not cover some of the *other* elements you seem to be
needing.
Gee, I wonder if that would be a good topic for a meeting <g>.
Bruce Dawson and David Berube did a presentation on Regular
expressions that helped me grasp what they were and why I'd want to
know more. Bought the Reg Exp book on my next visit to SoftPro <s>.
A similar kind of presentation that explained the place of sed, grep,
awk, pipes, redirection, tee and so forth.
It's been forever for me, but I seem to recall that _Unix Power
Tools_, also published by O'Reilly, covers all of the above and much,
much more. If others on this list second my suggestion, you might
want to obtain a copy. Alternatively, maybe list members can suggest
alternatives?
Re: UNIX Power Tools. Third time I've heard that recommended. Guess
I'll add that to my wish list.
Jerry Peek (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/28 - a number of
articles and book extracts linked here), one of the original authors
of Unix Power Tools, has been running a series in Linux Magazine for
a while now on working from the command line, including the
inscrutable 2&1 and other arcana.
Linux magazine is online at http://www.linux-mag.com/ and posts their
issues sixty days after publication at http://www.linux-mag.com/
backissues/.
Ben's other links are quite useful, too. The Answers Are Out There.
The challenge is finding the answer you need now.
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