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Sed and AWK – A quick reference

Sed (Stream Editor) and AWK (First letters of the surnames of its authors) are very powerful *nix tools for manipulating strings and text files. They combine the power of regular expressions with the power of a programming language for this aim.
Here are two quick references for doing many operations with a one-line code of sed and AWK. (Both are by the same author – Eric Perment):

sed 1-line
awk 1-line

I use these very frequently, as they cover almost anything I would want to do with text files. I loved the simple format the author has chosen to use (plain text).

Another great document (also by Eric Perment) is a comparison between sed and awk commands:
AWK vs. sed

Visit Eric’s homepage to find more sources and information about sed, AWK, perl and other stuff.

Enjoy

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