find, grep, sed, and awk.
I gave a lunchtime presentation on find, grep, sed, and awk. After the jump you’ll find the slides, and a bunch of links that were helpful to me.
Further reading:
find
The Geek Stuff – 15 Find Commands
The Geek Stuff – 15 More Find Commands
IBM – Advanced Find Techniques
grep
The Geek Stuff – 15 Grep Commands
sed
John Cook – Learn a little sed
The Geek Stuff – Sed Tips and Tricks
Bruce Barnett – Sed Tutorial and Introduction
Famous sed one-liners explained
awk
Greg Grothaus – Why you should learn just a little awk
The Geek Stuff – 8 Powerful Awk Built-in Variables
Bruce Barnett – Awk Tutorial and Introduction
Famous awk one-liners explained
Motivation/Philospophy:
John Cook on [Greg Grothaus on awk]
General command-line introduction:
The Geek Stuff – 50 Linux Commands
Things I’ve omitted, that you shouldn’t forget:
Wikipedia, man pages, and GNU docs.
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Frattanto nella blogosfera #38 « Ok, panico
October 28, 2011 at 4:21 am
My grandmother always wanted a puppy.
Brent
October 29, 2011 at 1:11 pm
I almost deleted your comment as spam …
Eric Wilson
October 29, 2011 at 5:04 pm
i don’t understand the statement: “My grandmother always wanted a puppy.”
what does it mean? and why it’s not a spam?
psepheroth
January 31, 2013 at 9:22 am
It was a joke, referencing the Windows XP search puppy that I mention in the slides.
Eric Wilson
January 31, 2013 at 10:00 am
Oh, that clears it up. Thanks for explaining @Eric Wilson 🙂
psepheroth
January 31, 2013 at 10:03 am
[…] first posts on my brand-new blog, I put up the slides from a lunch-time presentation that I gave on find, grep, sed, and awk. I put it up so that it would be available as reference to those that attended the talk, even though […]
Using find and grep. « Code and comments
January 31, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Very helpful. Though I know some of it, but I learn something from awk.
psepheroth
December 7, 2012 at 12:24 am
The silver searcher not mentioned ? It’s a real time saver and productivity booster when looking trough sourcecode
Wojciech Pietrzak
January 31, 2013 at 6:42 am
Really helpful, thanks! I knew hot to use grep and find (well, in a basic way) but sed and awk seems to be really useful.
hugo
March 2, 2013 at 10:26 pm
Is there audio of your talk available?
Greg
March 3, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Sorry, there is no audio or video remaining, as far as I know.
Eric Wilson
March 3, 2013 at 1:35 pm
It is good presentation. Thanks for sharing. If you have any video, please upload it.
awk command
October 22, 2013 at 4:34 am