Chapter 1 Power Tools for Editing
May You Solve Interesting Problems
A Stream Editor
A Pattern-Matching Programming Language
Four Hurdles to Mastering sed and awk
Chapter 2 Understanding Basic Operations
Awk, by Sed and Grep, out of Ed
Command-Line Syntax
Using sed
Using awk
Using sed and awk Together
Chapter 3 Understanding Regular Expression Syntax
That's an Expression
A Line-Up of Characters
I Never Metacharacter I Didn't Like
Chapter 4 Writing sed Scripts
Applying Commands in a Script
A Global Perspective on Addressing
Testing and Saving Output
Four Types of sed Scripts
Getting to the PromiSed Land
Chapter 5 Basic sed Commands
About the Syntax of sed Commands
Comment
Substitution
Delete
Append, Insert, and Change
List
Transform
Print
Print Line Number
Next
Reading and Writing Files
Quit
Chapter 6 Advanced sed Commands
Multiline Pattern Space
A Case for Study
Hold That Line
Advanced Flow Control Commands
To Join a Phrase
Chapter 7 Writing Scripts for awk
Playing the Game
Hello, World
Awk's Programming Model
Pattern Matching
Records and Fields
Expressions
System Variables
Relational and Boolean Operators
Formatted Printing
Passing Parameters Into a Script
Information Retrieval
Chapter 8 Conditionals, Loops, and Arrays
Conditional Statements
Looping
Other Statements That Affect Flow Control
Arrays
An Acronym Processor
System Variables That Are Arrays
Chapter 9 Functions
Arithmetic Functions
String Functions
Writing Your Own Functions
Chapter 10 The Bottom Drawer
The getline Function
The close( ) Function
The system( ) Function
A Menu-Based Command Generator
Directing Output to Files and Pipes
Generating Columnar Reports
Debugging
Limitations
Invoking awk Using the #! Syntax
Chapter 11 A Flock of awks
Original awk
Freely Available awks
Commercial awks
Epilogue
Chapter 12 Full-Featured Applications
An Interactive Spelling Checker
Generating a Formatted Index
Spare Details of the masterindex Program
Chapter 13 A Miscellany of Scripts
uutot.awk—Report UUCP Statistics
phonebill—Track Phone Usage
combine—Extract Multipart uuencoded Binaries
mailavg—Check Size of Mailboxes
adj—Adjust Lines for Text Files
readsource—Format Program Source Files for troff
gent—Get a termcap Entry
plpr—lpr Preprocessor
transpose—Perform a Matrix Transposition
m1—Simple Macro Processor
Appendix A Quick Reference for sed
Command-Line Syntax
Syntax of sed Commands
Command Summary for sed
Appendix B Quick Reference for awk
Command-Line Syntax
Language Summary for awk
Command Summary for awk
Appendix C Supplement for Chapter 12
Full Listing of spellcheck.awk
Listing of masterindex Shell Script
Documentation for masterindex
Background Details
Coding Index Entries
Output Format
Compiling a Master Index
Colophon