Table of Contents:
  • Matching text
  • Filenames versus patterns
  • Metacharacters
  • Metacharacters, listed by Unix program
  • Examples of searching
  • Sed editor
  • Command-line syntax
  • Syntax of sed commands
  • Group summary of sed commands
  • Alphabetical summary of sed commands
  • Awk programming language
  • Command-line syntax
  • Important gawk options
  • Profiling with pgawk
  • Patterns and procedures
  • Built-in variables
  • Operators
  • Variable and array assignment
  • Octal and hexadecimal constants in gawk
  • User-defined functions
  • Group listing of awk functions and commands
  • Coprocesses and sockets with gawk
  • Implementation limits
  • Alphabetical summary of awk functions and commands
  • Internationalization with gawk