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Tables of Contents for Sed & Awk
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Power Tools for Editing
1
7
May You Solve Interesting Problems
1
2
A Stream Editor
3
2
A Pattern-Matching Programming Language
5
1
Four Hurdles to Mastering sed and awk
6
2
Understanding Basic Operations
8
18
Awk, by Sed and Grep, out of Ed
8
5
Command-Line Syntax
13
2
Using sed
15
5
Using awk
20
3
Using sed and awk Together
23
3
Understanding Regular Expression Syntax
26
29
That's an Expression
27
2
A Line-Up of Characters
29
25
I Never Metacharacter I Didn't Like
54
1
Writing sed Scripts
55
23
Applying Commands in a Script
56
2
A Global Perspective on Addressing
58
3
Testing and Saving Output
61
3
Four Types of sed Scripts
64
13
Getting to the PromiSed Land
77
1
Basic sed Commands
78
28
About the Syntax of sed Commands
78
1
Comment
79
1
Substitution
80
6
Delete
86
1
Append, Insert, and Change
87
3
List
90
3
Transform
93
1
Print
94
1
Print Line Number
95
1
Next
95
1
Reading and Writing Files
96
8
Quit
104
2
Advanced sed Commands
106
31
Multiline Pattern Space
107
9
A Case for Study
116
3
Hold That Line
119
8
Advanced Flow Control Commands
127
6
To Join a Phrase
133
4
Writing Scripts for awk
137
35
Playing the Game
138
1
Hello, World
138
1
Awk's Programming Model
139
2
Pattern Matching
141
2
Records and Fields
143
4
Expressions
147
4
System Variables
151
6
Relational and Boolean Operators
157
6
Formatted Printing
163
3
Passing Parameters Into a Script
166
3
Information Retrieval
169
3
Conditionals, Loops, and Arrays
172
31
Conditional Statements
172
2
Looping
174
6
Other Statements That Affect Flow Control
180
2
Arrays
182
11
An Acronym Processor
193
6
System Variables That Are Arrays
199
4
Functions
203
24
Arithmetic Functions
203
5
String Functions
208
10
Writing Your Own Functions
218
9
The Bottom Drawer
227
28
The getline Function
227
5
The close() Function
232
1
The system() Function
233
2
A Menu-Based Command Generator
235
4
Directing Output to Files and Pipes
239
4
Generating Columnar Reports
243
3
Debugging
246
5
Limitations
251
1
Invoking awk Using the #! Syntax
252
3
A Flock of awks
255
23
Original awk
255
4
Freely Available awks
259
13
Commerical awks
272
5
Epilogue
277
1
Full-Featured Applications
278
46
An Interactive Spelling Checker
278
14
Generating a Formatted Index
292
26
Spare Details of the masterindex Program
318
6
A Miscellany of Scripts
324
35
uutot.awk---Report UUCP Statistics
325
3
phonebill---Track Phone Usage
328
3
combine---Extract Multipart uuencoded Binaries
331
1
mailavg---Check Size of Mailboxes
332
1
adj---Adjust Lines for Text Files
333
7
readsource---Format Program Source Files for troff
340
6
gent---Get a termacp Entry
346
2
plpr---lpr Preprocessor
348
3
transpose---Perform a Matrix Transposition
351
1
m1---Simple Macro Processor
352
7
Quick Reference for sed
359
6
Quick Reference for awk
365
17
Supplement for Chapter 12
382
15
Index
397