Sed and Awk

Gins · 04-14-2006, 04:14 PM

I find all the commands in 'Sed' and 'Awk' are too much to remember.

It is my understanding that all those who use commands looks at a book or some online article before writing.

Am I wrong?

Are there people who remember each and every 'Sed' and 'Awk'?

The UNIX commands are rather limited when comparing with 'Sed' and 'Awk'.

acid_kewpie · 04-14-2006, 04:42 PM

well awk for one can be seen as a programming language in itself. you'll tend to remember how to use the commands as much as you would remember C, java etc... you learn and commit it to memory, or look it up.

sed and awk ARE unix commands though...

AnanthaP · 04-15-2006, 07:55 AM

In my case, since I don't use sed and awk regularly, I need to refresh myself particularly about the command line options etc.

About the second point, like sed and awk, there are a a few other commands that have many options. "find" comes readily to mind.

The beauty of Unix (and linux) however is that you can combine these "commands" to get some good and functional utilities.

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aluser · 04-16-2006, 09:20 PM

I think most people memorize a smallish useful subset of sed and awk's commands; it's not really necessary to know them all. Same idea as the plethora of options to find and grep..

mdhmi · 04-17-2006, 12:19 AM

Some of us use sed and awk every day. There are naturally some things we need to lookup from time to time.

Mark

/bin/bash · 04-18-2006, 12:54 AM

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It is my understanding that all those who use commands looks at a book or some online article before writing.

There are some books available which will cover most of the major *nix utilities, sed, awk, grep, bash, vi, emacs, etc... It's good to have a few books around.

bigearsbilly · 04-19-2006, 08:55 AM

google unix CD bookshelf

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/

muha · 04-19-2006, 11:32 AM

Or try our own linuxquestions bookmarks:
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