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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Should I focus efforts on learning Perl or develop skills in awk, sed, etc Post 302637243 by brianjb on Tuesday 8th of May 2012 02:45:03 PM
Old 05-08-2012
Thanks bartus and joey. That is kind of what I was thinking in the back of my mind. I appreciate your feedback.

I have the 'Learning Perl' and the 'Programming Perl' books from O'Reilly. I have started to go through the 'Learning Perl' book and do the exercises.

Is there any book that you can recommend on fine tuning sed and awk skills? Is there a particular book? I saw one on amazon.com by O'Reilly. Or should I continue to just read these forums to see how different people solve different problems or issues?

---------- Post updated at 01:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:41 PM ----------

Thanks Corona. I definitely see the power of awk. I need to learn that more.

Thanks for the input.
 

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