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grep

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~terry Sun, Feb 9, 1997 (21:24) seed
grep is very cool. Just wait till you see what you can do with it.
~ian Wed, Feb 19, 1997 (23:49) #1
grep is an excellent place to start experimenting with "regular expressions". After get some experience with grep, I suggest you look at awk (or perl, but awk is easier to start with). A good awk book is "The Awk Programming Language" by Aho, Kernighan and Ritchie, ISBN 0-2-1-07981-X (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company). Another good book is the O'Reilly book, "Awk and Sed". If you really get interested, you can look at sed and lex. One big difference between grep and the other tools is that grep can find and display strings that match a regular expression, but the other tools can also edit the strings that you find.
~terry Sun, May 25, 1997 (11:19) #2
What's the best reference on using grep itself? What's the best unix book that you know about?
~tedchong Fri, May 30, 1997 (21:25) #3
Reference on using grep: on any unix shell type "man grep" So far the best unix books are from O'Reilly at http://www.ora.com See http://www.ora.com/catalog/prdindex.html for the full index and prices.
~terry Sat, May 31, 1997 (11:56) #4
Are there any good website tutorials that you know of? For grep and UNIX in general and BSDI specifically?
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